Bactericera flori (Crawford, 1911b) Halbert & Burckhardt, 2020

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4564694
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4585780
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Bactericera flori (Crawford, 1911b)
status	new combination and new status

Distribution. USA (CA) (Crawford 1910a; Patch 1912).

Host plant. Unknown, probably Salix spp. ( Salicaceae ).

Comments. Crawford (1914: 91) listed under Trioza salicis Mally the following synonyms: Trioza assimilis Crawford nec Flor and its replacement names Trioza flori Crawford and Trioza pomonae Aulmann , Trioza dubia Patch , Trioza nigra Crawford nec Kuwayama and its replacement names Trioza nigrilla Crawford and Trioza louisianae Aulmann , as well as Trioza minuta Crawford and Trioza minuta var. similis Crawford. Later Tuthill (1943: 555) questioned the synonymy of T. dubia and synonymized it instead with Trioza longicornis Crawford , an act which was followed by Hodkinson (1988). According to the original descriptions, the forewing of T. longicornis is broadly rounded but that of T. dubia subacute suggesting they are not conspecific. On the other hand, T. assimilis Crawford and T. dubia are congeneric and share the slender falcate paramere that is curved cephalad, the relatively long cuneate female terminalia with a pointed subgenital plate and their origin from California. We believe they are conspecific and synonymize them. As Trioza assimilis Crawford is a primary homonym of Trioza assimilis Flor , the name is not available and the oldest synonym, i.e. Trioza flori , has to be used which is transferred here to Bactericera as Bactericera flori (Crawford, 1911) , comb. nov.