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Contents Vol 20(3)

Afrotropical members of the jumping plant-louse genus Diclidophlebia (Hemiptera : Psylloidea)

D. Burckhardt A E , D. C. Aléné B , D. Ouvrard A C , J. L. Tamesse D and J. Messi B
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A Naturhistorisches Museum, Augustinergasse 2, CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland.

B Laboratoire de zoologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Yaoundé I, B. P. 812, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

C USM601/UMR5202, Département Systématique et Évolution, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, C.P. 50, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France.

D Laboratoire de zoologie, École Normale Supérieure, B. P. 47, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

E Corresponding author. Email: daniel.burckhardt@unibas.ch

Invertebrate Systematics 20(3) 367-393 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS05039
Submitted: 18 August 2005  Accepted: 27 February 2006   Published: 20 June 2006

Abstract

African members of the pantropical genus Diclidophlebia Crawford (Paurocephalinae) are revised. Sixteen species are recognised including three known species, seven new species and six species that are not formally described owing to insufficient material. Adult and last larval instars are diagnosed and illustrated and keys are provided for identification. Five species are associated with Sterculiaceae (Malvales) and one each with Tiliaceae (Malvales), Irvingiaceae/Simaroubaceae (Rutales), Chrysobalanaceae (Rosales) and Euphorbiaceae (Euphorbiales). Host plants of other species are unknown. Possibly monophyletic groups include four species restricted to the Guineo-Congolian region and five species in the Sudano-Zambezian region.

Additional keywords: Afrotropical, Chrysobalanaceae, commercial timber, Diclidophlebia, Euphorbiaceae, Hemiptera, host-plant relationships, Irvingiaceae, new taxa, pest species, Simaroubaceae, Sterculiaceae, Tiliaceae.


Acknowledgments

We thank Henri-Pierre Aberlenc (Montpellier), Jérôme Constant (Bruxelles), Jürgen Deckert (Berlin), David Hollis (London), Randall T. Schuh (New York) and Thomas Wagner (Koblenz) for the loan of material. We are grateful to David Hollis and two anonymous reviewers for comments on the manuscript. Daniel Mathis (Basel) provided access to the scanning electron microscopy laboratory and Roland Mühlethaler helped with some of the photographs. This work is partly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Research Partnerships with Developing Countries, project number 3170A0-109221/1) to Daniel Burckhardt and Joseph Tamesse and the European Community’s Sixth Framework Programme (Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship) to David Ouvrard.


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