A new Australian species of invasive psyllid, Acizzia convector Burckhardt & Taylor, sp. nov. (Psylloidea: Psyllidae) associated with Acacia auriculiformis and A. mangium (Fabaceae)

Taylor GS 1 , Halbert SE 2 , Tripathy A 3 , Burckhardt D 4

Affiliations 

  • 1 1Australian Centre of Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia. . Gary.Taylor@adelaide.edu.au
  • 2 2Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, Gainesville, Florida, USA. . Susan.Halbert@FDACS.gov
  • 3 3Entomology Branch, Forest Protection Division, Forest Research Institute, P.O. New Forest, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248006, India. . ashirwadresearch101@gmail.com
  • 4 4Naturhistorisches Museum, Augustinergasse 2, 4001 Basel, Switzerland. . daniel.burckhardt@bs.ch
Zootaxa, 2023 Jan 11;5228(1):61-72.
PMID: 37044665 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.1.3

Abstract

Acizzia convector Burckhardt & Taylor, sp. nov., a psyllid originating from Australia, is described from material from Australia (NT), South and Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia [Sabah], Singapore and Thailand) and North America (USA [Florida from six counties]). The new species is diagnosed and illustrated, and a key is provided to identify the adults of Acizzia species adventive in the New World. The new species develops on Acacia auriculiformis and A. mangium (Fabaceae), two mimosoids planted and widely naturalised throughout the tropics. While the presence of A. convector sp. nov. in Florida is probably recent (earliest record from October 2014), it occurs in Southeast Asia at least since the 1980s. The wide distribution of the host plants in tropical Africa and South America would allow the psyllids also to occur there.

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