Katacephala Crawford, 1914

Rendón-Mera, Diana Isabel, Serna, Francisco & Burckhardt, Daniel, 2017, Generic synopsis of the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea) from Colombia, Zootaxa 4350 (3) : -

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.3.2

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:42EC36DB-84AD-44DF-ADA4-978DA50CDA46

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6016475

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C987CF-1A41-4F11-73D5-FB55EA9AF8FC

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scientific name

Katacephala Crawford
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Katacephala Crawford View in CoL View at ENA

( Figs 20 View FIGURES 10 – 27 , 52 View FIGURES 47 – 58 , 80 View FIGURES 77 – 80 )

Diagnosis: Head and thorax covered in conspicuous setae; vertex large, convex; genal cones often indistinctly separated from vertex, often stout and contiguous along inner margin ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 10 – 27 ); occipital sclerite as a strip, giving the eyes a stalked appearance; lateral ocelli raised on tubercles. Antennae not markedly longer than 1.5 times the head width; segment 3 the longest. Forewing rhomboidal or with narrowly rounded apex; with costal break and pterostigma; wing membrane from hyaline to somewhat coriaceous; veins bearing long conspicuous setae; vein M+Cu1 short relative to Cu1 ( Fig. 52 View FIGURES 47 – 58 ). Meracanthus short; metatibia without genual spine; with a crown of 6–8 apical spurs; metabasitarsus with 2 apical spurs. Male proctiger with a well-developed angular posterior lobe.

Biology and damage: Immatures of Katacephala tenuipennis Tuthill excrete waxy secretions in which they are covered. They cause the edges of leaves to curl down and inward to form a closed linear pocket where they live and develop ( Mead 1990).

Host-plants: Myrtaceae and Asteraceae ( Hodkinson 1991; Burckhardt 1994a).

Distribution: Southern United States, Central and South America ( Hodkinson 1989).

Remarks: This is the first record of this genus in Colombia.

Examined material: Katacephala sp.: Cundinamarca: 1 (female), Zipaquirá, Vda. El Empalizado, Fca. La Niña María , 5°5'16"N, 74°3'11"W, 3200 m, 19-Sep-2012, on grass (M. Echeverry), UNAB 1493.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Liviidae

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