Acizzia alternata

Taylor, Gary S. & Kent, Deborah S., 2013, Potential economic pests of solanaceous crops: a new species of Solanum - feeding psyllid from Australia and first record from New Zealand of Acizzia solanicola (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), Zootaxa 3613 (3), pp. 257-273 : 264

Acizzia alternata Kent & Taylor

New records since Kent & Taylor 2010: AUSTRALIA, New South Wales [from S. mauritianum and deposited in AMS, unless otherwise stated]: 23, 2Ƥ, 2 nymphs (ethanol) Gwydir Highway, near Cangai Road between Glenn Innes and Grafton, 29°32.76′S, 152°28.23′E, 13.v.2009, DSK; 113, 13Ƥ, many [>10] nymphs (ethanol) Corindi, Pacific Street, 30°01.62'S, 153°12.00'E, 23.xii.2009, DSK; 13 (ethanol) Sherwood, Sherwood Road, 30°01.72′S, 153°03.59′E, 23.xii.2009, DSK; 3Ƥ (dried) Kalang, Kalang Road, 30°27.93′S, 152°50.53'E, 3.vi.2010, DSK; 53, 7Ƥ, many [>10] nymphs (ethanol) Mylestom, Mylestom Drive, 30°27.53′S, 153°02.36′E, 7.vii.2009, DSK; 43, 5Ƥ, many [>10] nymphs (ethanol) Mylestom, Mylestom Drive, 30°27.53′S, 153°02.36′E, 4.xi.2009, DSK; 83, 17Ƥ, many [>10] nymphs (ethanol) Mylestom, Mylestom Drive, 30°27.53′S, 153°02.36′E, 17.xii.2010, DSK; 73, 3Ƥ, 8 nymphs (ethanol) Eungai Creek, Pacific Highway, 30°49.08′S, 152°52.65′E, 1.vi.2009, DSK.

Acizzia alternata was known from just seven sites: Bucca, Lower Bucca, Repton, Mylestom, Bellingen, Valla Beach and Macksville, and represented a linear coastal to subcoastal distribution about 70 km long and no more than 15 km inland near Coffs Harbour on the north coast of New South Wales (Kent & Taylor 2010). The new material collected from four additional sites extends the distribution north another 90 km to between Glenn Innes and Grafton and south 12 km to Eungai. This now gives A. alternata a distribution 145 km long and inland 85 km at the most northerly record. The Australian distribution of A. alternata and its host is presented in Figs 12–13 .

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FIGURES 12 – 14. Distribution of Solanacae-inhabiting Acizzia, their hosts and Solanum spp. in Australia: (12) A. alternata, A. credoensis and A. solanicola, (13) Solanum lasiophyllum, S. mauritianum and S. petrophilum, (14) Solanum spp.