Platycorypha nigrivirga, Burckhardt, 1987

Percy, Diana M., Rung, Alessandra & Hoddle, Mark S., 2012, An annotated checklist of the psyllids of California (Hemiptera: Psylloidea), Zootaxa 3193, pp. 1-27 : 21

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.280093

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5695341

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DF8633-FFB1-FFD1-42B7-FBFEFAD2E169

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Plazi

scientific name

Platycorypha nigrivirga
status

 

nigrivirga Burckhardt, 1987 View in CoL

Type locality: Argentina.

Additional distribution: Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay. Introduced in Europe, USA, California

Host plant: Tipuana tipu .

Remarks: First detected in southern California in October 2008 ( Rung et al. 2009), this psyllid is a pest of the ornamental legume, Tipu , or rosewood tree; common name: Tipu psyllid.

Predators: Brazilian populations are partly controlled by coccinellid beetles ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Psyllidae

Genus

Platycorypha

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