Bactericera flori (Crawford, 1911b) Halbert & Burckhardt, 2020

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 : 86

Bactericera flori (Crawford, 1911b) , new combination and new status

Trioza assimilis Crawford 1910a: 233 ; primary homonym of Trioza assimilis Flor 1861: 408 .

Trioza flori Crawford 1911b: 503 ; replacement name for Trioza assimilis Crawford nec Flor.

Trioza pomonae Aulmann 1912: 22 ; replacement name for Trioza assimilis Crawford nec Flor.

Trioza dubia Patch 1912: 226 ; syn. nov.

Distribution. USA (CA) (Crawford 1910a; Patch 1912).

Host plant. Unknown, probably Salix spp. ( Salicaceae ).

Comments. Crawford (1914: 91) listed under Trioza salicis Mally the following synonyms: Trioza assimilis Crawford nec Flor and its replacement names Trioza flori Crawford and Trioza pomonae Aulmann , Trioza dubia Patch , Trioza nigra Crawford nec Kuwayama and its replacement names Trioza nigrilla Crawford and Trioza louisianae Aulmann , as well as Trioza minuta Crawford and Trioza minuta var. similis Crawford. Later Tuthill (1943: 555) questioned the synonymy of T. dubia and synonymized it instead with Trioza longicornis Crawford , an act which was followed by Hodkinson (1988). According to the original descriptions, the forewing of T. longicornis is broadly rounded but that of T. dubia subacute suggesting they are not conspecific. On the other hand, T. assimilis Crawford and T. dubia are congeneric and share the slender falcate paramere that is curved cephalad, the relatively long cuneate female terminalia with a pointed subgenital plate and their origin from California. We believe they are conspecific and synonymize them. As Trioza assimilis Crawford is a primary homonym of Trioza assimilis Flor , the name is not available and the oldest synonym, i.e. Trioza flori , has to be used which is transferred here to Bactericera as Bactericera flori (Crawford, 1911) , comb. nov.