Mastigimatidae

Mastigimatidae
Characteristic features of Mastigimas peruanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Psylloidea
Family: Mastigimatidae
Bekker-Migdisova, 1973[1]

Mastigimatidae is a family of plant lice containing genera placed previously in the Calophyidae and recently (2021) restored.[2] The type genus Mastigimas was erected by Günther Enderlein in 1921.[3]

Genera

The genera now placed here include:

  1. Bharatiana Mathur, 1973 - Asia
  2. Mastigimas Enderlein, 1921 - Americas
  3. Synpsylla Yang, 1984 - monotypic S. wendlandiae Yang, 1984 - Taiwan
  4. Toonapsylla Burckhardt, Sharma & Raman, 2018 - monotypic T. cedrelae (Kieffer, 1905) - Indochina

References

  1. ^ Becker-Migdisova EE (1973) On the Systematics of the Psyllomorpha and the Position of the Group Within the Order of Homoptera.
  2. ^ Burckhardt, Daniel; Ouvrard, David; Percy, Diana M. (2021). "An updated classification of the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) integrating molecular and morphological evidence". European Journal of Taxonomy (736): 137–182. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.736.1257.
  3. ^ Enderlein G (1921) Zool. Anz., 52: 121.
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