Homotomidae Explained

Homotomidae is a family of small phloem-feeding bugs in the superfamily Psylloidea, or jumping plantlice.

Hostplants

The species in this family feed almost exclusively on plants of the Moraceae genus Ficus. The only exception is the genus Triozamia, with its three species feeding on different varieties of Antiaris toxicaria, also in the Moraceae family.^[1]

Systematics

Hollis & Broomfield (1989) propose the following classification within Homotomidae:^[1]

• subfamily Dynopsyllinae Becker-Migdisova, 1973^[2]
  • tribe Diceraopsyllini Hollis & Broomfield, 1989
    • Diceraopsylla Crawford, 1912^[3] (1 sp.)
  • tribe Dynopsyllini Becker-Migdisova, 1973
    • subtribe Dynopsyllina Becker-Migdisova, 1973
      • Dynopsylla Crawford, 1913^[4] (3 spp.)
      • Austrodynopsylla Hollis & Broomfield, 1989 (1 sp.)
    • subtribe Triozamiina Becker-Migdisova, 1973
      • Triozamia Vondráček, 1963^[5] (3 spp.)
      • Afrodynopsylla Hollis & Broomfield, 1989 (1 sp.)
• subfamily Macrohomotominae White & Hodkinson, 1985^[6]
  • tribe Edenini Bhanotar, Ghosh & Ghosh, 1972^[7]
    • Mycopsylla Froggatt, 1901^[8] (9 spp.)
  • tribe Macrohomotomini White & Hodkinson, 1985
    • Macrohomotoma Kuwayama, 1908^[9] (14 spp.)
    • Pseudoeriopsylla Newstead, 1911^[10] (6 spp.)
• subfamily Homotominae Heslop-Harrison, 1958^[11]
  • tribe Homotomini Heslop-Harrison, 1958
    • Homotoma Guérin-Méneville, 1844^[12] (31 spp.)
  • tribe Synozini Becker-Migdisova, 1973
    • Synoza Enderlein, 1918^[13] (3 spp.)

Notes and References

1. Hollis . D. . Broomfield . Peter Sainsbury . 1989 . Ficus-feeding psyllids (Homoptera), with special reference to the Homotomidae . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology . 58 . 131–183 .
2. Book: Becker-Migdisova, E. E. . 1973 . Sistema psillomorf (Psyllomorpha) i polozhenie gruppy v otryade ravnokrylykh (Homoptera) . Narchuk . W. P. . Doklady na dvadzat chetvertom ezheghodnom chtenii pamyati N. A. Kholodkovskogo 1-2 Aprelya 1971 g. Voprosy paleontologii nasekomykh . Leningrad . 90–118 . ru .
3. Crawford . D. L. . 1912 . XXXIV. Indian Psyllidae . Records of the Indian Museum . 7 . 419–435 . 10.5962/bhl.part.28242 .
4. Crawford . D. L. . 1913 . New genera and species of Psyllidae from the Philippine Islands . The Philippine Journal of Science (Sect. D) . 8 . 293–301 .
5. Vondráček . Karel . 1963 . Jumping plant-lice (Psylloidea - Homoptera) of Central Africa. Part 1. (Congo) . Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae . 35 . 263–290 .
6. White . I. M. . Hodkinson . I. D. . 1985 . Nymphal taxonomy and systematics of the Psylloidea (Homoptera) . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) . 50 . 153–301 .
7. Bhanotar . R. K. . Ghosh . M . Ghosh . L. V. . 1972 . A new tribe of Psyllidae (Homoptera) from India . Bulletin of Entomology, Entomological Society of India . 12 . 1971 . 109–112 .
8. Froggatt . Walter Wilson . Walter Wilson Froggatt . 1901 . Australian Psyllidae. Part II . Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales . 1901 . 242–298 .
9. Kuwayama . Shigeru . 1908 . Die Psylliden Japans. 1 . Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society . 2 . 149–189 . de .
10. Newstead . Robert . 1911 . On a new genus of Psyllidae from Nyasaland . Bulletin of Entomological Research . 2 . 2 . 105–106 . 10.1017/S0007485300001267 .
11. Heslop-Harrison . George . George Heslop-Harrison . 1958 . Subfamily separation in the homopterous Psyllidae—III (a-c) . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . Series 13 . 1 . 9 . 561–579 . 10.1080/00222935808650984 .
12. Book: Guérin-Méneville, Félix Édouard . Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville . 1844 . Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier . Insectes . Paris . 1–576 . fr .
13. Enderlein . Günther . Günther Enderlein . 1914 . H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Psyllidae (Homopt.). Psyllidologica II . Entomologische Mitteilungen . 3 . 230–235 . de .