Trioza magnoliae ( Ashmead, 1881 )

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 : 69

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4564694
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4564836
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scientific name	Trioza magnoliae ( Ashmead, 1881 )
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Trioza magnoliae ( Ashmead, 1881) View in CoL

Materials examined. USA: Florida: Specimens from Collier, Franklin, Lake, Miami-Dade, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, and St. Lucie counties ( FSCA, dry and slide mounted, ethanol).

Diagnosis. Description by Tuthill (1943). Separated from other Florida psyllids as indicated in the keys above.

Distribution. Mexico, USA (FL, GA) ( Hodkinson 1988).

Host plants. Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng., P. palustris (Raf.) Sarg. (Lauraceae) .

Comments. This species, widely distributed in Florida, induces pouch galls on Persea borbonia and Persea palustris ( Mead 1963) . Although the insect was named after sweetbay, Magnolia virginiana L. ( Magnoliaceae ), this is an unlikely host. It is possible that Ashmead (1881) confused one of the Persea species with M. virginiana ( Mead 1963) . Significantly, T. magnoliae does not colonize Persea americana Mill. (avocado).