Psylla Explained

Psylla (from the Greek psulla, meaning flea) is a genus of sap-sucking insects belonging to the order Hemiptera. There are at least 110 described species in Psylla. Species within the genus feed on various host plants.

Some harmful species commonly known as flies belong to neighbouring genera, such as Cacopsylla (which includes most of the pyslla harmful to fruit trees), the Albizia fly (Acizzia jamatonica, from the Psyllidae family) and the laurel fly (Trioza alacris).

Species and hosts

• Psylla alni feeds on alders
• Psylla apicalis feeds on kōwhai trees^[1]
• Psylla betulae feeds on birches
• Psylla buxi feeds on box (Buxus species)
• Psylla cordata feeds on limes (Tilia species)
• Psylla frodobagginsi feeds on kōwhai trees^[1]
• Psylla oblonga feeds on Albizia odoratissima
• Psylla pyri feeds on European pear trees

See also

• List of Psylla species

Notes and References

1. Yue . Bi-Song . Martoni . Francesco . Armstrong . Karen . 2019 . Resolving an 87-year-old taxonomical curiosity with the description of Psylla frodobagginsi sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psyllidae), a second distinct Psylla species on the New Zealand endemic plant kōwhai . PLOS ONE . 14 . 9 . e0221316 . 2019PLoSO..1421316M . 10.1371/journal.pone.0221316 . 1932-6203 . 6750570 . 31532775 . free.