Aacanthocnema

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Aacanthocnema
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Family: Triozidae
Genus: Aacanthocnema
Tuthill & Taylor, 1955
Type species
Trioxa casuarinae
Froggatt, 1901

Aacanthocnema is a genus of bugs from the jumping plant lice family (Triozidae). [1] [2] The genus is endemic to Australia, and currently contains six species (Tayloret al., 2011).

Species

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Acanthocasuarina muellerianae is a species of jumping plant lice, 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). It possesses rhinaria on its fourth, sixth, eighth and ninth antennal segments; the species' hind tibia has one outer and two inner spurs, while the female's proctiger carries an apical hook posteriorly.

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Acanthocasuarina verticillatae is a species of jumping plant lice, 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). It possesses rhinaria on its fourth, sixth, eighth and ninth antennal segments; the species' hind tibia has one outer and two inner spurs, while the female's proctiger carries an apical hook posteriorly.

John Stuart Noyes is a Welsh entomologist.

Acanthocasuarina is a genus of bugs from the jumping plant lice family (Triozidae). The genus is endemic to Australia, and currently contains six species.

References

  1. Australian genera of the family Psyllidae (Hemiptera: Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology, 3 1955: 227-257. [Zoological Record Volume 92]
  2. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). external link London :BM(NH)