Bactericera distinctissima Kwon & Lee, 1981

(Figs. 148–149)

Bactericera (Smirnovia) distinctissima Kwon & Lee, 1981: 157 .

Bactericera distinctissima; Burckhardt & Lauterer (1997a: 116).

Bactericera (Klimaszewskiella) distinctissima; Kwon et al. (2016: 135).

Distribution in Korea. CB, GB, GG, GN, GW, JN (Park et al. 1980, as Trioza salicivola [sic]; Kwon & Lee 1981, as B. (Smirnovia) distinctissima and B. (S.) salicivora; Kwon 1983, as B. (S.) distinctissima; Yoon et al. 1990, as B. (S.) distinctissima; Park 1996, as Eubactericera distinctissima; Paek et al. 2010, as E. distinctissima; Lee et al. 2014, as B. salicivora; Kwon et al. 2016, as B. (Klimaszewskiella) distinctissima; Kwon & Kwon 2020, as B. (K.) distinctissima) (KNA, NAAS, NIBR, SNU).

Host plant. Salix babylonica L. (Kwon 1983), S. gracilistyla Miq., S. koriyanagi Kimura ex Goerz (Salicaceae) .

Comments. The records of Trioza salicivola [sic], Bactericera (Smirnovia) salicivora and B. salicivora from Korea by Park et al. (1980), Kwon & Lee (1981) and Lee et al. (2014) are misidentifications of B. distinctissima (Kwon 1983) .