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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 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.
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 ...
Pachypsyllinae is a plant louse subfamily, now placed in the family Carsidaridae. [1] Genera. A recent (2021) review [1] identified three genera:
Bactericera is a mostly Palaearctic and Nearctic plant louse genus in the family Triozidae; it was erected by Auguste Puton in 1876. [1] Species
Louse (pl.: lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. Phthiraptera has variously been recognized as an order, infraorder, or a parvorder, as a result of developments in phylogenetic research. [1] [2] [3]
Aacanthocnema torulosae is a species of jumping plant louse, first found on plants of the genus Allocasuarina in Australia. The species is characterised by exhibiting an elongate habitus; short Rs and short cubital forewing cells; ventral genal processes beneath the apical margin of its vertex; short antennae; and nymphs that are elongate and very sclerotised (scale-like).