Gyropsylla Brèthes
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.3.2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6016449 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C987CF-1A49-4F19-73D5-FE84EBD0FC2D |
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Plazi |
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Gyropsylla Brèthes |
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Gyropsylla Brèthes View in CoL
( Figs 10 View FIGURES 10 – 27 , 77 View FIGURES 77 – 80 )
Diagnosis: Head about as wide as mesoscutum; vertex about 1.75 times wider than long; genae not forming processes, but expanded as a lobe-like swelling between antennae and eyes; frons forming elliptical/elongate sclerite, closed below the genae. Clypeus tubular, extended perpendicularly to lower head surface, with shoulderlike constriction medially ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 10 – 27 , arrow). Antenna longer than head width; both terminal setae truncate, one approximately 3 times the length of the other. Forewing with costal break; pterostigma from short and broad to long and very narrow. Veins R and M+Cu1 subequal, vein M moderately curved; cell cu1 much larger than m1. Hind leg with small meracanthus; area beneath meracanthus forming a rounded swelling ( Fig. 39 View FIGURES 37 – 46. 37 – 38 ); metafemur apically and metatibia basally with a group of long stout bristles ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 37 – 46. 37 – 38 ); metatibia without genual spine, with a dense crown of about 10 apical spurs; metabasitarsus with two apical spurs.
Biology and damage: Immatures feeding on young shoots and leaves on which they induce blister-shaped galls. Immatures are covered in waxy secretions and produce lots of honeydew ( Brèthes 1921; Iede & Machado 1989; Leite & Zanol 2001).
Host-plants: Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) ( Hodkinson 1989; Burckhardt & Queiroz 2013).
Distribution: Neotropic, Neartic and Oriental regions (Burckhardt & Queiroz 2013).
Examined material: Gyropsylla sp.: Nariño: 15 (female) Pasto, Obonuco , Feb-1985, potato (N. Ruiz), CTNI 59 .
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