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The Prunus- and Rubus-Feeding Species of Macropsis (Homoptera: Cicadellidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Bryan P. Beirne
Bryan P. Beirne
Affiliation:
Systematic Entomology Unit, Entomology Division Ottawa, Canada
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It is important that the species of leafhoppers of the genus Macropsis that feed on fruit trees should be readily identifiable, as at least one of them transmits the plant virus that produces the symptoms known as peach yellows and little peach. There has been some confusion between the Prunus-feeding species because it is frequently not possible to name adult specimens on external characters alone, and the male genitalia, which usually provide reliable specific characters, have not been illustrated or adequately described. Moreover, there is a form in this group whose status, as a species or as a variety, has been uncertain; and there is established in British Columbia a Rubus-feeding species that has not been recorded previously from North America.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 86 , Issue 2 , February 1954 , pp. 86 - 90
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1954

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