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    A new genus and ten new species of jumping plant lice (Hemiptera: Triozidae) from Allocasuarina (Casuarinaceae) in Australia

    GARY S. TAYLORJOHN T. JENNINGSMATTHEW F. PURCELLANDY D. AUSTIN...
    45页
    查看更多>>摘要:Twelve species of jumping plant lice, Hemiptera: Psylloidea, in two genera are recognised from plants of the genus Allo-casuarina (Casuarinaceae) in Australia. Aacanthocnema Tuthill & Taylor comprises two species that are here redescribed, Aa. casuarinae (Froggatt) and Aa. dobsoni (Froggatt), together with four new species, Aa. burckhardti Taylor, Aa. huege-lianae Taylor, Aa. luehmannii Taylor, and Aa. torulosae Taylor. A new genus, Acanthocasuarina Taylor, comprises six new species: Ac. acutivalvisTaylor, Ac. campestris Taylor, Ac. diminutae Taylor, Ac. muellerianae Taylor, Ac. tasmanica Taylor, and Ac. verticillatae Taylor. Both genera are characterised by an elongate habitus, short Rs and short, triangular radial and cubital fore wing cells, ventrally produced genal processes beneath angular, overhanging apical margin of vertex, antennae short, and nymphs characteristically elongate, heavily sclerotised and scale-like. Species of Acanthocasuarina have rhinaria on antennal segments 4,6, 8 and 9,the hind tibia has 1 outer and 2 inner spurs and the female proctiger has a posterior apical hook. In contrast, species of Aacanthocnema lack rhinaria on antennal segment 8 and sclerotised spurs on the hind tibia, and the female lacks a posterior apicalhook on the proctiger. Trioza banksiae Froggatt stat. rev. is removed from Aacanthocnema. Keys to genera and species are provided, together with notes on their biology, host associations and biogeography.

    Molecular identification of three of the most important mealybug species (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) on ornamental plants in Guilan province, Iran

    REZA HOSSEINIJALIL HAJIZADEH
    9页
    查看更多>>摘要:Mealybugs (Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) are serious pests, particularly as invasive species on many agricultural products. Morphological identification of mealybugs is based on adult female characters that, in the absence of adult females or with damaged specimens, can be problematic, especially when identification is required urgently, such as that involving the exportation/importation market. In this study, species-specific primers were designed to identify three of the most abundant mealybug speciesfound on ornamental plants in Guilan province, Iran: Planococcus citri (Risso), Pseudococcus vi-burni (Signoret) and Pseudococcus comstocki (Kuwana). By generating amplification products of different sizes, the three species-specific primers, along withuniversal COI primers, were successfully used in multiplex PCR tests to identify all three mealybug species in a single reaction. Analysis of a large array of specimens from different geographic locations on different host plants showed that this was areliable and accurate method.

    A new species of Sericothripinae from China (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), with two new synonyms and one new record

    MAUD MIRAB-BALOUQING-LING HUJI-NIAN FENGXUE-XIN CHEN...
    7页
    查看更多>>摘要:One new species of subfamily Sericothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is described and illustrated: Hydatothrips longjingensis sp. n., and H. abdominalis (Kurosawa) is newly recorded from China. The following taxonomic changes are established: Sericothrips houji (Chou & Feng) comb. n. (from Hydatothrips).

    Two new species of Lathomicrus Jaloszynski (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from Borneo

    Jaloszynski, Pawel .
    5页
    查看更多>>摘要:Two new species of the previously monospecific ant-like stone beetle genus Lathomicrus Jaloszynski (Scydmaeninae, Cephenniini) are described: L. sarawakensis sp. n. and L. sabahensis sp. n., both from East Malaysia (Borneo). Diagnostic characters of the genus and new species are illustrated.

    New State Records for Mallochiola gagates (McAtee & Mailoch, 1924), a little-known microphysid in Eastern North America (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Microphysidae)

    ROBERT L. BLINN
    2页
    查看更多>>摘要:The Microphysidae is one of the smallest heteropteran families, comprised of 30 species and 10 extinct species in 5 genera (Henry 2009, Vinokurov et al. 2010). Only six species are known from Canada and the continental United States (Henry 1988, Schwartz 1989, Schwartz et al. 1991). Of these six species, only two, Chinaola quercicola Blatchley and Mallochiola gagates (McAtee and Mailoch, 1924), are considered native to North America. The remaining four species are Palearctic in origin. Schuh and Slater (1995) presented an excellent review of the classification, morphology and natural history for the family. Microphysids are recognized by the presence of ocelli, a distinct cuneus, a single closed cell on the hemelytral membrane, and two-segmented tarsi.