Ctenarytaina, Ferris & Klyver, 1932

Percy, Diana M., 2025, Two new and rare psyllids (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) from French Polynesia, Zootaxa 5727 (1), pp. 184-197 : 185

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5727.1.12

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D987EC-E171-FFF2-D0F1-FAF4FA78F91C

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scientific name

Ctenarytaina
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Key to adults of Ctenarytaina View in CoL View at ENA in French Polynesia

1 Head with genae conical, diverging, with more acute apices; forewing broad (ratio WL:WW <2.4) and remaining broad in apical half with broadly rounded apex, cell cu 1 higher and narrower (ratio CUR <2.5) with arching vein Cu 1a.................................................................... C. remota Tuthill, 1956 View in CoL (on Hivaoa, Marquesas Islands)

- Head with genae broad, converging and mostly contiguous with bluntly rounded apices; forewing narrower (ratio WL:WW> 2.4) and increasingly narrow in apical half to narrowly rounded apex, cell cu 1 lower and wider (ratio CUR> 2.5) with more or less straight vein Cu 1a.................................................................................. 2

2 Smaller species, length including wings < 2 mm; head with vertex longer and narrower (ratio VL:VW> 0.5) and notably narrowed anteriorly, genae very short (see Fig. 1c View FIGURE 1 in Tuthill 1942) (ratio VL:GC> 0.3)....................................................................................... C. lulla ( Tuthill, 1942) View in CoL (on Huahine, Society Islands)

- Larger species, length including wings> 2 mm ( Fig. 1N View FIGURE 1 ); head with vertex shorter and wider (ratio VL:VW <0.5), not notably narrowed anteriorly ( Fig. 1G, 1H View FIGURE 1 ), genae longer (ratio VL:GC <0.3)........ C. elinae sp. nov. (on Tahiti, Society Islands)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Aphalaridae

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