Platycorypha sp.

Rendón-Mera, Diana Isabel, Burckhardt, Daniel, Durán, Juliana, Ocampo, Valentina & Vargas-Fonseca, Sergio Andrés, 2024, The jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) in Urban Green Spaces of Bogotá (Colombia), with descriptions of two new species and redescription of Mastigimas colombianus Burckhardt, Queiroz and Drohojowska, ZooKeys 1209, pp. 199-230 : 199-230

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1209.117368

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4BEF4E4E-CCCC-49A0-A4F4-07DBA5CF2261

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13274494

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9A01B3A7-D758-537B-89A0-05202973E3D3

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scientific name

Platycorypha sp.
status

 

Platycorypha sp.

Material examined.

Santa Fe: • 1 ♀; Parque Ilarco ; 4.7008, – 74.0657; 2569 m; 23. iii. 2017; J. Duran leg.; Croton coriaceus ( Euphorbiaceae ); MPUJ_ENT GoogleMaps .

Distribution.

Colombia: Bogotá, Magdalena ( Rendón-Mera et al. 2017).

Host plant.

Unknown. The single female at hand was collected on Croton , an unlikely host as all Platycorypha species, for which hosts are known, develop on Fabaceae ( Burckhardt and Queiroz 2020) .

Comments.

The single female at hand resembles specimens reported as Platycorypha erythrinae (Lizer) from Panama ( Brown and Hodkinson 1988) and Peru ( Burckhardt 1987). These specimens are probably not conspecific with P. erythrinae from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, but represent an undescribed species. The specimens from Colombia, Panama and Peru differ from the latter in the presence of distinct brown dots on the radular areas of the forewing and the small hook on the apex of the female proctiger. More material is required for solving this issue.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Psyllidae

Genus

Platycorypha