Acizzia solanicola

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 : 263-264

Acizzia solanicola Kent & Taylor

New records since Kent & Taylor 2010: AUSTRALIA, New South Wales [from S. mauritianum and deposited in AMS, unless otherwise stated]: 23, 1Ƥ (dried) Sydney Univ., April 1951, A.R. Woodhill, wild tobacco (ANIC); 33, 4Ƥ Macquarie Pass, 4.xi.1956, E.F. Riek, datura (ANIC); 103, 16Ƥ (ethanol) Repton, Northbank Road, 30°27.40′S, 152°55.44′E, 22.xii.2009, DSK; 23, 3Ƥ, 3 nymphs (ethanol) Repton, Perrys Road Lookout, 30°25.93′S, 153°01.12′E, 22.xii.2009, DSK; 133, 10Ƥ, 4 nymphs (ethanol) Telegraph Point, Mooney Street, 31°19.79′S, 152°47.74′E, 7.vii.2009, DSK; 13, 4Ƥ (ethanol) Telegraph Point, Mooney Street, 31°19.79′S, 152°47.74′E, 18.xii.2010, DSK; 23, 1Ƥ (ethanol) The Bucketts Way, near Krambach Road to Gloucester, 32°02.46′S, 152°14.46′E, 14.v.2009 DSK; 113, 8Ƥ, 3 nymphs (ethanol) Paterson, Maitland Road, 32°36.21′S, 151°37.06′E, 24.vii.2009, DSK; 163, 14Ƥ, many [>10] nymphs (ethanol) Somersby, Keighley Road, 33°22.79′S, 151°17.11′E, 29.iv.2010, DSK; Mangrove Mountain, 33°19.39′S, 151°10.83′E, 15.ii.2011, on angel’s trumpet, Brugmansia sp. (personal communication, M. Steiner); Kulnura Mountain, George Downes Drive, 33°13.87′S, 151°13.13′E, 29.iv.2010, on eggplant, S. melongena in nursery (personal observations, DSK); 73, 5Ƥ, 5 nymphs (ethanol) Sydney, North Rocks, 33°47.25′S, 151°00.44′E, 20.v.2009, DSK & B. May, on cape gooseberry, Physalis peruviana , on potted plant in garden; 93, 10Ƥ, 3 nymphs (ethanol) Stanwell Park, near Stanwell Creek, 34°13.81'S, 150°58.93'E, 15.xi.2009, DSK; 53, 7Ƥ (ethanol) Kiama, South Kiama Drive, 34°41.06′S, 150°50.83′E, 20.i.2010, DSK; 23, 7Ƥ (ethanol) Tomakin, George Bass Drive near Dunns Creek, 35°49.34′S, 150°11.24′E, 20.i.2010, DSK; 73, 5Ƥ (ethanol) Bodalla, Princes Highway opposite church, 36°05.13′S, 150°02.85′E, 21.i.2010, DSK; 23, 2Ƥ (ethanol) North Narooma, Princes Highway near Raymond Street, 36°12.32′S, 150°07.19′E, 21.i.2010, DSK. AUSTRALIA, South Australia: 53, 6Ƥ, 12 nymphs (slide), 163, 24Ƥ, 3 nymphs (dried), 73, 14Ƥ, 77 nymphs (ethanol) Hiltaba Station, 34°41.890′S, 135°31.735′E, 19.xi.2012, GST (ANIC, SAMA, WINC).

NEW ZEALAND: [sent to GST by Drs Alan Flynn and James Haw, MPIB for confirmation of species identification]: 13, 1Ƥ (slide) Papatoetoe Cemetery, B. Rogan, 14.ii.2012, Solanum mauritianum , IDC T12_0597 (MPIB); 13, 1Ƥ (slide) same data (WINC); 13, 1Ƥ (ethanol) same data (MPIB); 1 nymph (slide) 231 Morrin Road, St Johns, J. Richmond, 14.iii.2012, Solanum mauritianum IDC T12_01025 (WINC); 2 nymphs (ethanol) same data (MPIB).

A chronological account of records for A. solanicola is given in Table 2. Acizzia solanicola was first recorded from S. mauritianum at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney in 1936. It was again collected at Sydney University in 1951, and at Macquarie Pass, about 100 km S of Sydney in 1956. The first record of this species from cultivated eggplant was at Mangrove Mountain, about 60 km N of Sydney in 2005, followed by a subsequent record retrieved from a sticky trap placed near cultivated eggplant at Virginia, 30 km N of Adelaide, South Australia in 2008 (1,200 km W Sydney) (Kent & Taylor 2010). It was collected regularly from S. mauritianum and cultivated S. melongena in the Sydney region during 2007 and 2008. In 2008, it was discovered at Bulahdelah, 180 km N of Sydney, and at Bilpin, 75 km E. In 2009, additional sites were recorded at Nabiac, 220 km N Sydney, Moorland (270 km N), Telegraph Point (310 km N), Kempsey (360 km N) and Glenreagh (450 km N). In late 2009, and early 2010 additional sites were recorded at Stanwell Park (40 km S Sydney), Kiama (100 km S); and the distribution extended to Tomakin (240 km S), Bodalla (270 km S) and Narooma (280 km S). All new records were collected from S. mauritianum .

In early 2012, it was discovered on S. mauritianum near Auckland in New Zealand (2,200 km E Sydney), and in November 2012 a population was discovered on a native Australian host, S. petrophilum on Hiltaba Station, Gawler Ranges, South Australia. Its current range extends from Narooma to Glenreagh comprising 750 km of coastal and subcoastal New South Wales, to a single known population on Hiltaba Station in semi-arid central South Australia, and with restricted localities near Adelaide, SA and Auckland, NZ. The Australian distribution of A. solanicola and its hosts are 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.