Platyobria biemani
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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).
Alien:
Speculated (Demetriou pers. comm.)
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