Cacopsylla araliae ( Konovalova, 1981 )

Cho, Geonho, Burckhardt, Daniel & Lee, Seunghwan, 2022, Check list of jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of the Korean Peninsula, Zootaxa 5177 (1), pp. 1-91 : 39

Cacopsylla araliae ( Konovalova, 1981)

( Figs. 69–72 )

Рsylla araliae Konovalova, 1981: 11 .

Cacopsylla araliae ; Cho et al. (2017a: 539) .

Cacopsylla (Hepatopsylla) aralicola Kwon & Kwon, 2020: 140 , syn. nov.

Distribution in Korea. GB, GW, GG, JN ( Cho et al. 2017a; Kwon & Kwon 2020, as Cacopsylla (Hepatopsylla) aralicola ) (KNA, NHMB, NIBR, SNU).

Host plant. Aralia elata (Miq.) Seem. (Araliaceae) ( Cho et al. 2017a).

Comments. Kwon & Kwon (2020) suggested that the Korean populations differ from Cacopsylla araliae , described from the Primorsky Krai, in the structure of the terminalia and erected a new species, C. aralicola , for the former. We examined material from Korea (SNU) and Russia (IBSS), but could not find these alleged differences. We therefore synonymise the two taxa.

Figures

FIGURES 62‒69. Habitus. 62. Epiacizzia kuwayamai, immature. 63. Anomoneura mori, adult male. 64. Anomoneura mori, teneral adult female. 65. Anomoneura mori, fifth instar immatures. 66. Cacopsylla abdominalis, adult male. 67. Cacopsylla abdominalis, adult female. 68. Cacopsylla albopontis, adult female. 69. Cacopsylla araliae, adult male winter form. (Photos 66–69 from Cho et al. (2017a))

FIGURES 70‒77. Habitus. 70. Cacopsylla araliae, adult female summer form. 71. Cacopsylla araliae, fifth instar immature. 72. Microhabitat of Cacopsylla araliae, interpetiolar space of Aralia elata. 73. Cacopsylla baccatae, teneral adult male. 74. Cacopsylla baccatae, fifth instar immature. 75. Cacopsylla bibari, adult male. 76. Cacopsylla bibari, adult female. 77. Cacopsylla bibari, fifth instar immature. (Photos 70–77 from Cho et al. (2017a))