Cacopsylla japonica (Kuwayama) Inoue, 2010

Inoue, Hiromitsu, 2010, The generic affiliation of Japanese species of the subfamily Psyllinae (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) with a revised checklist, Journal of Natural History 44 (5 - 6), pp. 333-360 : 347-348

Cacopsylla japonica (Kuwayama) comb. nov.

Psylla japonica Kuwayama 1955, p 1 ; Miyatake 1964a, p 4; 1964b, p 26; 1969, p 71; Baba and Miyatake 1971, p 8; Klimaszewski 1973, p 212; Miyatake 1977, p 245;

1979, p 216; Konovalova 1988, p 525; Miyatake 2000, p 205; Inoue and Yamauchi 2001, p 56; Matsumoto 2004, p 277. Type locality: Japan (Kyushu).

Cacopsylla japonica is probably closely related to Cacopsylla abieti ( Kuwayama, 1908) and Cacopsylla lineaticeps ( Kwon, 1983) ; the latter occurs in Korea and feeds on Acer ginnala Maxim. (Aceraceae) ( Park 1996). All of them are associated with the plant genus Acer and are similar to each other in adult morphological features especially in genal cones and male and female terminalia, but not in the venation and coloration of forewings.

Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Sado Island), Russian Far East (Southern Primorsky, Sakhalin Island).

Host plants. Acer rufinerve Sieb. et Zucc. (Aceraceae) and Acer ukurunduense Trautv. et Meyer ( Miyatake 1964a) .