Palaeolindbergiella simlae (Crawford, 1912), comb. nov.

Psylla longus [sic] Kandasamy, 1986, syn. nov.

Distribution. India (Hodkinson 1983, 1986): Meghalaya (Lahiri & Biswas 1990, as Psylla simlae complex), West Himalaya (Mathur 1975, as Psylla sp. near simlae).

Host plants. Bauhinia purpurea, B. variegata (Fabaceae) .

Comments. According to Mathur (1975), the female holotype (Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata), the only type specimen of Psylla simlae, is severely damaged. Awaiting evidence to the contrary, we assume that Crawford’s and Mathur’s material is conspecific. Psylla longus Kandasamy, also reported from Bauhinia, shares with P. simlae the body dimensions, the black genal processes and details of the forewing and terminalia, suggesting they are conspecific. Here we consider Psylla longus a junior synonym of P. simlae .

Originally described in Psylla, this species is not congeneric with Psylla alni (Linnaeus, 1758), the type species of Psylla . With P. primitiva Heslop-Harrison, 1961, the type-species of Palaeolindergiella, it shares following characters: head weakly inclined from longitudinal body axis; median suture on vertex developed; genal processes less than 0.8 times as long as vertex along mid-line; preocular sclerite absent; basal spine of metatibia prominent; forewing with broad and often short pterostigma; female terminalia long, proctiger cuneate; circumanal ring oval. For this reason, it is formally transferred here to Palaeolindbergiella as P. simlae (Crawford, 1912), comb. nov. from Psylla .