Trioza urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Malenovský, Igor, Lauterer, Pavel, Labina, Eugenia & Burckhardt, Daniel, 2012, Jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of Afghanistan, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 1-22 : 18

Trioza urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)

( Figs. 22–23 )

Material examined. BAGHLAN: Hindu Kush, Khinjan Valley , Do-Shak , 2500 m, 26.ix.1952, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, J. Klapperich leg.; same data, 1.x.1952, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ ( MMBC; dry-mounted).

General distribution. Iran, China, Tajikistan; India, Central Asia, Mongolia, Russian Far East and Siberia, Caucasus, Turkey, Europe ( GEGECHKORI & LOGINOVA 1990, BURCKHARDT & LAUTERER 1993, BURCKHARDT 2011, LI 2011). New record for Afghanistan.

Host plants. Urtica cannabina , U. dioica and U. urens (Urticaceae) ( GEGECHKORI & LOGINOVA 1990).

Comments. Males from Afghanistan differ from European specimens in the slightly broader paramere which is hardly constricted subapically ( Figs. 22–23 ). More material is needed to assess the taxonomic significance of this difference.

Figures

Figs. 17–23. 17–21 – Agonoscena klapperichi sp. nov., holotype: 17 – female terminalia, with detail of structure of circumanal pore ring, lateral view; 18 – metacoxa, lateral view; 19 – dorsal valvula and apex of ventral valvula, lateral view; 20 – antenna; 21 – antennal segment 10. 22–23 – Trioza urticae (Linnaeus, 1758), paramere, inner surface, lateral view. 22 – specimen from Afghanistan, Baghlan province; 23 – specimen from the Czech Republic, Moravia. Scale bars: 16–17, 19, 21–22: 0.1 mm; 18, 20: 0.05 mm.