Bactericera perrisii Puton, 1876

Malenovský, Igor, Lauterer, Pavel, Labina, Eugenia & Burckhardt, Daniel, 2012, Jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of Afghanistan, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 1-22 : 17

Bactericera perrisii Puton, 1876

Published records. LOGINOVA (1972), BURCKHARDT & LAUTERER (1997): Afghanistan.

Material examined. KABUL: Kabul env., steppe in the mountains , 18.vii.1966, 4 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀; same locality, desertified steppe in the mountains , Artemisia spp., Poaceae , 21.vii.1966, 10 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀, E. S. Sugonyaev leg. ( ZIN; dry-mounted); Tangi Gharu, at the Kabul river , 1600 m, 21.viii.1953, 1 ♂ 2 ♀♀, J. Klapperich leg. ( MMBC; dry and slide-mounted).

General distribution. Iran, China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan; Central Asia, Mongolia, Russia (western Siberia), Middle East, Egypt, Caucasus, Europe ( GEGECHKORI & LOGINOVA 1990, BURCKHARDT & LAUTERER 1997).

Host plants. Artemisia spp. ( Asteraceae ) ( BAEVA 1985, GEGECHKORI & LOGINOVA 1990, BURCKHARDT & LAUTERER 1997, LI 2011).

Comments. The specimens examined from Tangi Gharu have short, broadly conical genal processes (usually absent in B. perrisii ). They resemble, however, specimens from Europe and Iraq (MMBC) in other characters including the structure of the male terminalia. A variation of the shape of the genae is also known from other Bactericera spp. ( BURCKHARDT & LAUTERER 1997).