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Species Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, 1908

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Species Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, 1908

  • Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, S. 1908. Die Psylliden Japans. I. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society 2: 149-189 [160].
    Type data:
     Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀ (not traced), Taiwan.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Palaearctic Region, Arabian Pen., Oriental Region; also introduced into USA (Florida), Bahamas, Brazil, Caribbean; Australian record based on a single sample collected at Stapleton, NT, by G.F. Hill in 1915 (specimens in BMNH) and not recorded or found since.

Introduced from Oriental region.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: free-living, sap-sucker (associated flora: Citrus spp. [RUTACEAE]; Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack [RUTACEAE]; Murraya koenigii Spreng. [RUTACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

?host for NT.

 

General References

Bellis, G., Hollis, D. & Jacobson, S. 2005. Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), and huanglongbing disease do not exist in the Stapleton Station area, Northern Territory, Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 44: in press (D. citri not found in recent surveys in the Northern Territory)

Catling, H.D. 1970. Distribution of the Psyllid vectors of Citrus Greening disease, with notes on the biology and bionomics of Diaphorina citri. FAO Plant Protection Bulletin 18: 8-15 [8] (biology and bionomics)

Chien, C.-C. & Chu, Y.-I. 1998. Biological control of citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri in Taiwan. pp. 93–105 in Grey, G. (ed.) Biological pest control in systems of integrated pest management. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the use of Biological Control Agents and Integrated Pest Management 1996 (biocontrol in Taiwan)

Crawford, D.L. 1912. XXXIV. Indian Psyllidae. Records of the Indian Museum 7: 419-435 [424] (as Euphalerus)

Crawford, D.L. 1924. New Indian Psyllidae. Records of the Indian Museum 26: 615-621 [616]

Tsai, J.H. & Liu, Y.H. 2000. Biology of Diaphorina citri (Homoptera: Psyllidae) on four host plants. Journal of Economic Entomology 93: 1721-1725 [1721] (biology in USA, Florida)