Psyllidae

TaxID: 30092

Basic Information

Psyllidae

Jumping Plant Lice, Jumping Plantlice

Psyllidae, the jumping plant lice or psyllids, are a family of small plant-feeding insects that tend to be very host-specific, i.e. each plant-louse species only feeds on one plant species (monophagous) or feeds on a few closely related plants (oligophagous). Together with aphids, phylloxerans, scale insects and whiteflies, they form the group called Sternorrhyncha, which is considered to be the most "primitive" group within the true bugs (Hemiptera). They have traditionally been considered a single family, Psyllidae, but recent classifications divide the group into a total of seven families; the present restricted definition still includes more than 70 genera in the Psyllidae. Psyllid fossils have been found from the Early Permian before the flowering plants evolved. The explosive diversification of the flowering plants in the Cretaceous was paralleled by a massive diversification of associated insects, and many of the morphological and metabolic characters that the flowering plants exhibit may have evolved as defenses against herbivorous insects. Several genera of psyllids, especially among the Australian fauna, secrete coverings called "lerps" over their bodies, presumably to conceal them from predators and parasites.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Hemiptera

Psyllidae

unclassified

nan

nan

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Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (8578 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
YGEN2030-22 BOLD:ACL9970 COI-5P 651 Canada 2021-07-31 60.056, -128.58
YDBB7536-21 BOLD:AAV0273 COI-5P 651 Canada 2021-07-15 64.161, -139.836
YDBB516-21 BOLD:AEM4148 COI-5P 653 Canada 2021-07-17 64.185, -140.413
YDBB3987-21 BOLD:AEM4148 COI-5P 653 Canada 2021-07-21 64.161, -139.836
YDBB3979-21 BOLD:AEM4148 COI-5P 654 Canada 2021-07-21 64.161, -139.836
YDBB2383-21 BOLD:AEM4148 COI-5P 651 Canada 2021-07-19 64.349, -138.418
YDBB2382-21 BOLD:AEM4148 COI-5P 653 Canada 2021-07-19 64.349, -138.418
YDBB2381-21 BOLD:AEM4148 COI-5P 651 Canada 2021-07-19 64.349, -138.418
YDBB2132-21 BOLD:AEM4148 COI-5P 651 Canada 2021-07-17 64.097, -140.883
YDBB2125-21 BOLD:AEM4148 COI-5P 651 Canada 2021-07-17 64.097, -140.883
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