Calophya rhois (Löw) (Calophyidae)

Suh, Soo-Jung & Choi, Deuk-Soo, 2020, Using DNA barcoding for identification of some psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) intercepted at South Korea ports-of-entry, Insecta Mundi 2020 (816), pp. 1-10 : 7

6. Calophya rhois (Löw) (Calophyidae)

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Psylla rhois Löw 1877 .

Korea port interception. Intercepted one time at Korean ports of entry from China on cut flowers of Cotinus plants.

Diagnosis. Adults: General body color young specimens head and thorax reddish brown, abdomen green or yellow; older specimens, head and thorax chestnut brown, abdomen red and brown ( Hodkinson and White 1979). Forewing membranous, clear; veins yellow; pterostigma long. Head bearing genal cones short. Antennae yellow, except at tip; shorter than width of head, thick always black at tip. Male anal valve broad, about 0.7× as broad as long, convex on both hind and front margins.

Hosts. Asteraceae : Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. Anacardiaceae : Cotinus coggygria Scop. , Rhus ambigua Lav. ex Dippel , Rhus coriaria L., Rhus cotinus L. ( Ouvrard 2020).

Distribution. Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Inner Mongolia, Italy, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, UK ( Ouvrard 2020).

DNA barcoding data for diagnosis. 1 attggtacct cttataattg gagctcctga tatagccttc cctcgattaa acaatttaag / 61 attttgacta ttaattccct cactttattt attattaata agaagaatta tagatcaagg / 121 agtaggaact ggttgaacag tttacccccc actatcaaat tccatatttc atagaggata / 181 ctctgtagat atagctattt tttctttaca tttagcagga atttcctcaa ttttaggagc / 241 aattaatttt atttcaacca tcttaaatat acgaagatgt ttgtataact tagaaaaaat / 301 acctttattt gtttgatctg tactaattac agctatttta ctattatttg ctttgccagt / 361 attagcagga gcaattacaa tacttttaac agaccgtaat ttaaatacat ctttctttga / 421 cccttctgga ggtggagatc ctatccttta ccaacactta ttt (463 bp).

Figures

Figures 7–12. Five species of intercepted psyllids. 7) Blastopsylla occidentalis Taylor, female. 8) Cacopsylla nigriantennata (Kuwayama), female (top) and male (bottom). 9) Calophya rhois (Löw), male. 10–11) Ctenarytaina eucalypti (Maskell), female (top) and male (bottom). 10) Forewing. 11) Genitalia. 12) Livilla retamae (Puton), male, forewing.