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The louse as apical dilatation of aedeagus, elongate with distinct ventro-basal hook distant from shaft. [4] The forewing is about 2 mm long. [ 5 ] The host plant for the jumping plant louse is unknown.
Citrus greening, also known as huanglongbing, associated with the presence of a bacterium Liberibacter asiaticum, is an example of a plant pathogen that has coevolved with its insect vector, the "Asian citrus psyllid", ACP, Diaphorina citri, such that the pathogen causes little or no harm to the insect, but causes a major disease which can ...
The common name lousewort, applied to several species, derives from an old belief that these plants, when ingested, were responsible for lice infestations in livestock. [2] [3] The genus name Pedicularis is from the Latin pediculus meaning louse. [4]
Brevicoryne brassicae, commonly known as the cabbage aphid or cabbage aphis, is a destructive aphid (plant louse) native to Europe that is now found in many other areas of the world. [1] The aphids feed on many varieties of produce, including cabbage , broccoli (especially), Brussels sprouts , cauliflower and many other members of the genus ...
Their name is derived from being often found in old wood, [2] and from louse, a parasitic insect, [3] although woodlice are neither parasitic nor insects. Woodlice evolved from marine isopods which are presumed to have colonised land in the Carboniferous , though the oldest known fossils are from the Cretaceous period. [ 4 ]
Bactericera is a mostly Palaearctic and Nearctic plant louse genus in the family Triozidae; it was erected by Auguste Puton in 1876. [1] Species
Triozidae is one of seven families collectively referred to as plant lice. They have traditionally been considered part of a single family, Psyllidae, but recent classifications divide the group into a total of seven families; most of the genera (over 70) remain in the Psyllidae , but Triozidae is the third-largest family in the group.
Pachypsyllinae is a plant louse subfamily, now placed in the family Carsidaridae. [1] Genera. A recent (2021) review [1] identified three genera: