Heteropsylla quassiae Crawford, 1914

Halbert, Susan E. & Burckhardt, Daniel, 2020, The psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of Florida: newly established and rarely collected taxa and checklist, Insecta Mundi 2020 (788), pp. 1-88 : 51

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4564694
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4585986
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scientific name	Heteropsylla quassiae Crawford, 1914
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Heteropsylla quassiae Crawford, 1914 View in CoL

Materials examined. USA: Florida: Specimens from Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe counties ( FSCA, dry and slide mounted).

Diagnosis. Males of H. quassiae are recognized easily by the very short inner lobe of the parameres as seen in posterior view. Females have short, rounded terminalia (see key above).

Distribution. Caribbean islands ( Cuba, Bahamas), USA (FL) ( Ouvrard 2020). We treat this species as native to Florida.

Host plants. Lysiloma latisiliquum (L.) Benth. ( Fabaceae )

Comments. Heteropsylla quassiae is common in suction trap samples from Miami-Dade County and has been found numerous times on Lysiloma latisiliquum (FSCA#s E2002-621, 4710, E2009-5534, E2012-4356, E2013- 3415, E2015-1530, 6419, E2016-3595, 1429). Little is known about the biology of this psyllid. We have four specimens from Stock Island (Monroe County) Florida collected on Flaveria linearis Lag. (Compositae) by H.V. Weems on 27.xii.1954, and three specimens collected on Key Largo (Monroe County) on 9.iv.1955 (no host listed) that are labeled as H. quassiae . All are females, thus their diagnosis is not completely certain; however, if these specimens are indeed H. quassiae , the 1954 collection is our earliest. The host record on F. linearis is doubtful.

Mitrapsylla Crawford, 1914