Heteropsylla texana Crawford 1914
Authors/Creators
- 1. Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, 1151 Punchbowl St., Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96813, USA
- 2. University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, 3050 Maile Way, Gilmore Hall 310, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96822, USA
- 3. University of British Columbia, Botany Department and Biodiversity Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description
Heteropsylla texana Crawford, 1914
First detection / collection in HI.
1999 (new state record; see Remarks).
Distribution in HI.
Kaua‘i, O‘ahu.
Material examined.
USA – Hawaiian Islands · 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Kaua‘i, Nohili Dunes, Barking Sands, Pacific Missile Range Facility; 22.0621°N, 159.7833°W; 24 Mar. 2021; yellow pan traps placed below Prosopis [= Neltuma] pallida; K. Magnacca & J. Preble leg.; coll. 2022-165; HDAB · 2 ♂; O‘ahu, Sand Island; 21.3094°N, 57.8871°W; 30 Jun. 2022; M. Ramadan leg.; ex Neltuma pallida; coll 2022-176; HDAB.
Host plant in HI.
Neltuma pallida (Fabaceae).
Additional distribution and host plant records.
Widespread in southern continental USA and Mexico; several species of Neltuma (= Prosopis) and also Pithecellobium sp. (Fabaceae) (Muddiman et al. 1992; Percy et al. 2012; Ouvrard 2023).
Remarks.
In 2022, two individuals (1 ♂, 1 ♀) were collected in a yellow pan trap placed beneath Neltuma pallida trees at Barking Sands Beach, Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kaua‘i. Identification was confirmed by Cheryle O’Donnell (USNM). Initially thought to be a new state record until an unpublished HDOA report came to light with a citing of H. texana collected at Ke‘ehi Lagoon, O‘ahu in 1999. The report stated “ Surveys disclose Prosopis [= Neltuma] (kiawe), Pithecellobium (opiuma), Chrysopsis, Tamarix, and Acacia (koa) as hosts. ” However, no voucher specimens could be located to verify this, and it seems that the record was never publicly published. A survey of the Ke‘ehi Lagoon in 2022 confirmed establishment of H. texana on N. pallida. For this reason, we report Heteropsylla texana as a new state record here. Immatures are free-living.
Genetic resources.
GenBank e. g., MG 988760 (COI), MG 989069 (cytB) [California specimen]. A number of other accession numbers for this species can be found on GenBank.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- HDAB
- Event date
- 2021-03-24 , 2022-06-30
- Verbatim event date
- 2021-03-24 , 2022-06-30
- Scientific name authorship
- Crawford
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Psyllidae
- Genus
- Heteropsylla
- Species
- texana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Heteropsylla texana Crawford, 1914 sec. Matsunaga, Magnacca, Krushelnycky & Percy, 2026
References
- Muddiman SB, Hodkinson ID, Hollis D (1992) Legume-feeding psyllids of the genus Heteropsylla (Homoptera: Psylloidea). Bulletin of Entomological Research 82: 73–117. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485300051518
- Percy DM, Rung A, Hoddle MS (2012) An annotated checklist of the psyllids of California (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). Zootaxa 3193 (1): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3193.1.1
- Ouvrard D (2023) Psyl'list - The World Psylloidea Database. https://flow.hemiptera-databases.org/psyllist/searched on 15 September 2023. https://doi.org/10.5519/0029634