Publication details
First record of the Australian genus Platyobria Taylor, 1987 from Europe and P. biemani sp. nov. as a potential pest of Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Entomologische Zeitschrift |
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| Field | Zoology |
| Keywords | systematics; new species; introduction; Greece; Australia; Palaearctic Region; Eucalyptus; Sternorrhyncha; Spondyliaspidinae |
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| Description | Platyobria biemani sp. nov. (Aphalaridae, Spondyliaspidinae) is described from the island of Lesbos (Greece) based on a series of adult specimens which were collected on a long-leaved Eucalyptus species. This is a likely host as immatures of three of the nine previously known species of Platyobria Taylor, 1987 develop on young succulent terminal branchlets or leaves of eucalypts. This is the first time that Platyobria is recorded from outside Australia from where the new species probably originates. Whereas Platyobria species do not seem to affect their hosts significantly in Australia, there is a potential that in a new environment lacking specific parasitoids, P. biemani sp. nov. may become a pest of eucalypts. |