Syringilla eastopi ( Mathur, 1973b ), 2018

Burckhardt, Daniel, Sharma, Anamika & Raman, Anantanarayanan, 2018, Checklist and comments on the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Indian subcontinent, Zootaxa 4457 (1), pp. 1-38 : 13

Syringilla eastopi ( Mathur, 1973b) , comb. nov.

Syringilla nepalensis Miyatake, 1981 , syn. nov.

Distribution. Bhutan ( 1 ♀, Thimphu, 14.v.1972 (Naturhistorisches Museum Basel—Bhutan-Expedition); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, same but 27.iv.1972; 2 ♂, 2 ♀, same but 20 km south of Thimphu, 2300 m, 18.v.1972 [NHMB, dry mounted]); India: Himachal Pradesh ( Mathur 1973b, as Euphyllura eastopi ), Meghalaya ( Lahiri & Biswas 1979, as Euphyllura eastopi ); Nepal ( Miyatake 1981, as Syringilla nepalensis ).

Host plant unknown, according to ( Mathur 1973b) unidentified plant.

Comments. Hodkinson (1986) suggested that Euphyllura eastopi Mathur, 1973b may be synonymous with Syringilla nepalensis Miyatake, 1981 . Based on the examination of the female holotype and four female paratypes of E. eastopi (BMNH) and specimens from Bhutan and Nepal (BMNH, NHMB) fitting the description of S. nepalensis , we confirm Hodkinson’s (1986) tentative synonymy and transfer the former to Syringilla as Syringilla eastopi (Mathur, 1973) , comb. nov. = Syringilla nepalensis Miyatake, 1981 syn. nov. The differences in the paramere shape in the original descriptions of the two nominal species are due to a distortion of this structure in Mathur’s (1973b) description.