Cacopsylla pruni (Scopoli, 1763)

Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel & Cocquempot, Christian, 2015, An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy, Zoosystema 37 (1), pp. 251-271 : 259

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2015n1a13
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:297BE7F3-2630-4438-BE98-9D60394EF50E
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D41F66-B438-FFB5-3719-F8234389FC4E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Cacopsylla pruni (Scopoli, 1763)
status

Treatment

Cacopsylla pruni (Scopoli, 1763) View in CoL View at ENA

Chermes pruni Scopoli, 1763: 140 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-Maritimes, Saorge, M 10- CAI1400-T1-M2, 1♂ ( MNHN) ; same locality, M10-CAI1400-T2- M2, 1♂, 1♀ ( BMNH) ; same locality, M10-CAI1400-T6-M2, 1♀ ( MNHN) ; same locality, M10-CAI2000-T1-M1, 1♂ ( MNHN) ; same locality, M10-CAI2000-T1-M2, 1♂ ( MNHN) ; Alpes- Maritimes, Saint-Martin-Vésubie, M09-BOR1400-T1-M1, 1♀ ( MNHN) .

DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: Caucasus, Georgia, Hungary, Iran, Slovenia.

COMMENTS

One specimen is noteworthy in lacking the typical orangebrown forewing coloration. Description in Hodkinson & White (1979a), Ossiannilsson (1992) and Burckhardt (2010). Biology in Lauterer (1999; 2011). Host-plants: several Prunus species. This species is a vector of “ Candidatus Phytoplasma prunorum responsible for the European Stone Fruit Yellows ( Carraro et al. 1998). According to Peccoud et al. (2013), C. pruni is a complex of two cryptic species.