Apsyllopsis mexicana Burckhardt & Queiroz 2020, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Queiroz, Dalva L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Psylloidea
Apsyllopsis
Apsyllopsis mexicana

description: Apsyllopsis mexicana (Crawford, 1914), comb. nov.
(Figs 4, 8, 11, 16, 18, 22, 27, 31, 35)
Psyllopsis mexicana Crawford, 1914: 133, holotype ♂: Mexico: Acapulco (Baker) (USNM, dry mounted), examined.
Psyllia beeryi Caldwell, 1944: 339, holotype ♀: Brazil: PA, Santarém, x.1942 (L.A. Beery Jr.) (USNM, dry mounted), examined, syn. nov.
Psyllia berryi Caldwell, 1944: 339, misspelling.
Macrocorsa beeryi (Crawford, 1914); Burckhardt & Queiroz, 2012: 39.
Material examined. Brazil (CE: Tianguá, Ubajara; GO: Alto Paraíso do Goiás, Mineiros, Mossâmedes, Pirenópolis; MA: Araioses; MG: Coromandel, João Pinheiro, Lassance, Montes Claros, Patos de Minas, São Gonçalo do Rio Preto, Três Marias, Uberlândia, Vazante; MS: Corguinho, Jardim, Ponta Porã, Ribas do Rio Pardo, Rio Verde; MT: Acorizal, Alto Garças, Barão de Melgaço, Chapada dos Guimarães, Cuiabá, Diamantino, Guarantã do Norte, Lucas do Rio Verde, Nobres, Nova Guarita, Nova Mutum, Poconé, Rondonópolis, Sinop, Sorriso, Terra Nova do Norte; PA: Santarém; PI: Brasileira, Caldeirão, Piracuruca, Piripiri; PR: Amaporã, Londrina; SP: Santa Maria da Serra).—M exico; Panama (MHNG, NHMB, USNM, dry and slide mounted, 70% ethanol).
Description. Adult. Described in detail and illustrated by Brown and Hodkinson (1988: 139–141, as Limbopsylla beeryi).
Fifth instar immature (Fig. 16). Colouration. Dirty whitish or yellowish. Eyes reddish; antennal flagellum light brown at base, getting gradually darker towards brown apex; tip of rostrum black. Tibiae and tarsi greyish brown.
Structure. Body 1.6–1.8 times as long as wide. Antenna 1.4–1.6 times as long as forewing pad; setae on antenna just slightly longer than flagellar diameter. Forewing pad very narrow, about 3 times as long as wide; bearing 30–40 irregularly spaced, long and medium long marginal setae, and a few short, scattered setae dorsally. Extra pore fields extending antero-dorsally to fore margin of caudal plate (Fig. 11).
Measurements (in mm) and ratios (4 immatures). Body length 2.28–2.52, antenna length 1.08–1.30.
Egg (Figs 22, 35). Orange brown, pedicel brown. Described and illustrated by Brown and Hodkinson (1988: 139–141, as Limbopsylla beeryi).
Distribution. Reported from Brazil (MA, MG, MS, MT, PA), Mexico (Guerrero) and Panama (Crawford 1914, as Psyllopsis mexicana; Caldwell 1944, as Psyllia beeryi; Brown & Hodkinson 1988, as Limbopsylla beeryi; Burckhardt & Queiroz 2012, as Macrocorsa beeryi; Mazzardo et al. 2017, as Macrocorsa beeryi).— Brazil: CE, GO, PI, PR, SP (new records).
Host plant, biology and habitat. Hymenaea courbaril L., H. stigonocarpa Hayne var. pubescens Benth., adults were also collected on Hymenaea martiana Hayne and H. stigonocarpa Hayne which are likely hosts.—Inducing roll galls on the leaves and producing lots of flocculent wax (Figs 36–38).—Cerrado vegetation, transitional cerrado–Amazon forest, gallery forest.
Comments. We examined a single pinned male specimen of this species bearing following labels: ‘Acapulco, Mexico, Coll.Baker’; a red type label in D.L. Crawford’s handwriting ‘ Cookiella arytaenoidea Crawf., Crawf’; ‘1943Colln DLCrawford’; in D. Hollis’ handwriting ‘? Limbopsylla beeryi (Cald.) David Hollis det., 1993’; in D. Burckhardt’s handwriting ‘ holotype ♂ of Psyllopsis mexicana Crawf., D. Burckhardt, 2017 ’; in D. Burckhardt’s handwriting ‘ Macrocorsa mexicana (Crawf.) det. D. Burckhardt, 2017’. We believe that this is the holotype of Psyllopsis mexicana as it fits Crawford’s (1914) original description and collecting data. The name ‘ Cookiella arytaenoidea Crawf. ’ is a manuscript name which Crawford apparently changed for the publication but not in the collection. The types of Psyllopsis mexicana and Psyllia beeryi are conspecific and we synonymise the two. As discussed above, the species belongs to Apsyllopsis to which we transfer it here.
description: Published as part of Burckhardt, Daniel & Queiroz, Dalva L., 2020, Neotropical jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) associated with plants of the tribe Detarieae (Leguminosae, Detarioideae), pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 4733 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4733.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3669649