Cacopsylla abieti (Kuwayama) Inoue, 2010

Inoue, Hiromitsu, 2010, The generic affiliation of Japanese species of the subfamily Psyllinae (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) with a revised checklist, Journal of Natural History 44 (5 - 6), pp. 333-360 : 340-341

Cacopsylla abieti (Kuwayama) comb. nov.

Psylla abieti Kuwayama 1908, p 175 ; Oshanin 1912, p 128 ( P. abietis [sic]); Aulmann 1913, p 8; Sasaki 1954, p 33; Miyatake 1964a, p 9; 1964b, p 24; 1969, p 72; Baba and Miyatake 1971, p 9; Kuwayama and Miyatake 1971, p 53; Klimaszewski 1973, p 198; Miyatake 1972b, p 102; 1979, p 216; Inoue and Yamauchi 2001, p 55; Matsumoto 2004, p 277. Type locality: Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu).

Psylla albopontis Kuwayama 1908, p 164 ; Aulmann 1913, p 9; Sasaki 1954, p 33. Type locality: Japan (Hokkaido). Synonymized by Miyatake 1964a, p 9.

Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Sado Island), northern China.

Host plants. Acer sp. (Aceraceae) ( Miyatake 1979); * Acer sieboldianum Miq. (new record). The host plant records of Pinaceae , Abies mariesii Masters , Picea glehnii (Fr. Schm.) Masters and Picea jezoensis (Sieb. et Zucc.) Carrière ( Miyatake 1964a) , on which nymphs have not been confirmed, are erroneous (see the host plant notes for Cacopsylla haimatsucola ).

* Adults and nymphs were confirmed on A. sieboldianum at Mount Yamizo , Daigo, Ibaraki Prefecture, Honshu, Japan from 8 to 23 May 2004 by H. Inoue ( NIFTS) .