Cacopsylla pyricola, Foerster, 1848

Percy, Diana M., Rung, Alessandra & Hoddle, Mark S., 2012, An annotated checklist of the psyllids of California (Hemiptera: Psylloidea), Zootaxa 3193, pp. 1-27 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.280093

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5695205

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DF8633-FFAF-FFCF-42B7-FCC7FADFE0D3

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Plazi

scientific name

Cacopsylla pyricola
status

 

pyricola (Foerster, 1848) View in CoL

Type locality: Europe.

Additional distribution: West Palaearctic to E. Siberia, S. Korea and Japan; introduced in Argentina, Canada, USA.

Host plant: Pyrus communis ; CSCA records for California include nymphs and adults collected from Pyrus calleryana .

Remarks: This species and several closely related taxa are responsible for considerable economic losses in fruit production via the vectoring of phytoplasmas.

Parasitoids: Several encyrtid primary parasitoids and hyperparasitoids have been recorded from related psyllids ( C. pyri and C. pyrisuga ) feeding on pear in Europe ( Sullivan & Volkl 1999) (including, Prionomitus , Psyllaephagus , Sectiliclava , Syrphophagus , Trechnites (all as primary), and Pachyneuron (as secondary)).

CSCA

California State Collection of Arthropods

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Psyllidae

Genus

Cacopsylla

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