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Platyobria biemani

Burckhardt, Queiroz & Malenovský, 2014
Arthropoda » Hemiptera » Aphalaridae » Platyobria biemani
Platyobria biemani
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Habitat detail

Paphos, Nata (34.7756o N, 32.5706o E), alt. 160 m, 2♂, 06.ii.2021 and 11.iii.2021, collected from Eucalyptus near a cultivated rural area by the side of the road by using a beating sheet. The Eucalyptus spp. trees were observed bearing lerps resembling those of G. brimblecombei especially on young, reddish leaves, as well as galls of L. invasa (Demetriou et al. 2022), (OUMNH); Limassol, Agia Zoni (34.6877°N, 33.0429°E), alt. 30 m, 1♀, 02.IV.2022, reared from Eucalyptus sp. leaves collected in urban roadside, coll. E. Koutsoukos (ZMUA); 

Akrotiri UK SBA: salt-lake (34.6005o N, 32.9730o E), alt. 5 m, 1♀, 12.VI.2021, collected from Eucalyptus spp. trees in windbreaker near crop by using a beating sheet, coll. J. Demetriou (Fig. 1B) (JSHU).

Establishment status
Established
Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year
2021
Impacts
Unknown
Online resource
http://www.hemiptera-databases.com/psyllist?lang=en&card=name&id=6456
Pathway
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Contaminant on plants (except parasites) – Con Plant
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Contaminant nursery material – CNM
Pathway detail

Speculated (Demetriou pers. comm.)

References

Demetriou J, Koutsoukos E, Davranoglou L-R, Roy H, Spodek M, Martinou A (2022) First records of the alien Eucalyptus psyllids Blastopsylla occidentalis (Hemiptera, Aphalaridae) from Cyprus and Platyobria biemani (Hemiptera, Aphalaridae) from Cyprus and continental Greece. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 65(1): 25-36. https://doi.org/10.3897/travaux.65.e82873

"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"
Joint Service Health Unit
University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

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