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An annotated checklist of the psyllids of California (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)

Botany Department and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada Entomology Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, CDFA, 3294 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento,CA 95832, USA
Department of Entomology, University of California, 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Hemiptera biogeography host plant jumping plant lice species diversity pest species

Abstract

A revised checklist to the species of Psylloidea (Hemiptera) from California is presented, with information on host plantdata, distributions, introduced and pest species, parasites, parasitoids, and predators, and biological control programs. Thelist includes 164 species, of which six are newly recorded. In total, this comprises a 26% increase in the number of speciesrecorded for California since the last published checklist in 1988. Choricymoza Bliven is a new synonym of PhylloplectaRiley, and 10 species previously in Euphalerus Schwarz are recombined under Nyctiphalerus Bliven. California has therichest native psyllid fauna in North America, and the influence of climatic and floristic diversity on this diversificationis considered. Key words: biogeography, host plant, jumping plant lice, species diversity, pest species.

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