Acizzia

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 : 264-265

Acizzia spp. (of unknown specific status)

New material examined since Kent & Taylor 2010: AUSTRALIA, New South Wales: AUSTRALIA Queensland: 13, 1Ƥ (dried) Mt Glorious State Forest, [27º20.0'S, 120º46.0'E], 3– 10.xii.[19]87, Y. Basset, subtropical rainforest Argyrodendron actinophyllum Edin. [ Sterculiaceae , black booyong] (ANIC); 13, (dried) Bellenden Ker Range, [17º16.0'S, 145º50.0'E], summit TV station, 1560 m, Earthwatch, QM, pyrethrum knockdown (ANIC).

There is insufficient material from these two localities to assess morphological variation and to determine whether or not they can be placed within the described species, but clearly congeneric, they extend the known distribution of the solanaceous-inhabiting psyllids to southern Queensland (a distance of 300 km north of previous records), and to far-north Queensland (a distance of 1,500 km north of previous records). Host data for the former is considered unlikely given that it is not Solanaceae , and that the method of collection was not stated. These records have been excluded from the distribution records as presented in Fig. 12 .

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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.