Trioza minor Crawford, 1912, 2018

Burckhardt, Daniel, Sharma, Anamika & Raman, Anantanarayanan, 2018, Checklist and comments on the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Indian subcontinent, Zootaxa 4457 (1), pp. 1-38 : 29

Trioza minor Crawford, 1912 , stat. nov.

Distribution. Bangladesh ( Hodkinson 1986, as Trioza fletcheri minor ); India: Bihar ( Crawford 1912, as Trioza fletcheri minor ; Mathur 1975, as Trioza fletcheri minor ), Uttarakhand ( Mathur 1975, as Trioza fletcheri minor ), Tamil Nadu ( Mani 1948, as Trioza fletcheri minor ; Kandasamy 1986, as Trioza fletcheri minor ); Pakistan ( Bodlah et al. 2012, as Trioza fletcheri minor ).

Host plants. Terminalia alata, T. arjuna , T. catappa , T. tomentosa (Combretaceae) .

Comments. Crawford (1912) erected Trioza fletcheri minor for a series of specimens which were slightly smaller than the nominal subspecies and which were collected on Terminalia rather than Gmelina. Several subsequent studies showed that the two taxa differ slightly morphologically and in their host plants: T. fletcheri on Mallotus and T. fletcheri minor on Terminalia , respectively. Hodkinson (1986) concluded that ‘there seems no good reason why fletcheri minor should not be recognized as a species separate from fletcheri ’. We agree and raise the former to species level as Trioza minor Crawford, 1912 , stat. nov.