Anyone any good with Psyllids?

Dogghound · #1 (**permalink**) 27-03-2008, 09:40 PM

About 2-3mm. Today in my garden.

Cheers

Pudding4brains · #2 (**permalink**) 28-03-2008, 02:34 PM

Hard to find good/compehensive "free" info :-|

On my programme for this year, but as of yet I don't know nothing ... here's some links though:

Gebruiker:P4b/FnF/Psylloidea - Wikipedia

gotta run
Arp

Dogghound · #3 (**permalink**) 28-03-2008, 08:44 PM

Cheers for the links will give me something to go at. I agree there are no great keys to my knowledge.

Lord V · #4 (**permalink**) 29-03-2008, 10:00 AM

Looks similar to one I had ID'd as Psylla pyricola.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/15...14499d254a.jpg

Brian V.

Dogghound · #5 (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 07:59 PM

Cheers Brian, nice shot too.

Acutipuerilis · #6 (**permalink**) 30-11-2008, 09:30 PM

Most likely Cacopsylla melanoneura - it's a very common species, and everything I can see matches, but it's hard to be absolutely sure from just this.

I'm trying to get my head around psyllids at the moment, and the only useful refs I've got are Hodkinson & White's RES Handbook, and a Scandinavian one (Ossiannilsson's Psylloidea of Fennoscandia and Denmark) which is far superior. I've barely started, but already I reckon I've got three species that aren't on the UK list, so this is probably going to be a challenge.

JRsbugs · #7 (**permalink**) 30-11-2008, 09:53 PM

Hi,

I found a site for a National Recording scheme of Psocoptera recently, there is a key but fairly basic as well as an image Gallery with quite a few pics.

HTML Code:

http://www.brc.ac.uk/schemes/barkfly/homepage.htm

Hope this helps!

Janet

Pudding4brains · #8 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 12:28 AM

Hi Janet,

That certainly is a great website .... for Psocoptera (Barkfly)

Psylloidea (jumping plant lice) look somewhat alike, but are very different animals. A good website for those would be psyllids.org or British Bugs.

Arp

JRsbugs · #9 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 12:42 AM

Hi Pudding!

But if you follow the key through to those with long wings Psyllid is there! Probably as a comparison!

It still could be very useful, guess I should have checked out where it belonged though.

That psyllids.org site looks good too! I have used the British bugs site, good one.

Cheers! Janet

Acutipuerilis · #10 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 06:45 AM

Thanks for the pointers, folks - and I agree, the barkfly page is excellent. I can't comment much on British Bugs; it's hard to learn much from it, though, 'cos I'm writing it...

Cheers,
Joe