Leptynoptera sulfurea Crawford, 1919

Martoni, Francesco & Brown, Samuel D. J., 2018, An annotated checklist of the Cook Islands psyllids with keys to the species and two new records (Hemiptera, Psylloidea), ZooKeys 811, pp. 91-108 : 91

Leptynoptera sulfurea Crawford, 1919 Figure 22

Leptynoptera sulfurea Crawford, 1919: 147.

Distribution.

Reported on the Cook Islands by Hodkinson (1983). Known only from Rarotonga. Other locations include: Australia ( Hollis 2004), Asia [China, Chagos Islands, Cocos Islands, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Ryukyu Islands, Singapore, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand ( Martin and Hollis 1992, Hodkinson 1983, 1986, Neville et al. 2015)], Pacific Islands [Caroline Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia (Australs), Guam, Hawaiian Islands, Mariana Islands, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Tonga ( Hodkinson 1983, Martin and Hollis 1992, Percy 2017].

Host plant.

Calophyllum inophyllum L. ( Calophyllaceae ).

Remarks.

Leptynoptera sulfurea forms galls along the leaf margins of Calophyllum inophyllum ( Neville et al. 2015), a tree of particular significance for Cook Islanders in that the trunks were preferentially used for building canoes ( Hiroa 1927).