Checklist of UK Psylloidea

The Psylloidea (psyllids) or jumping plant lice are small plant-feeding insects that form the group called Sternorrhyncha together with aphids, phylloxerans, scale insects and whiteflies. They are one of the least studied and, in some ways, most difficult groups of UK Hemiptera. The literature needed to identify them is largely out of print, and there is not currently a UK recording scheme.

Psyllids are generally small (around 2-3 mm), but with a good macrophotograph, a fair number can be reasonably easily identified. Ideally, both a side and a top view should be examined, and many species require at least external details of the genitalia for identification. Most species are strongly host-specific, meaning that the host plant is an essential part of the identification process (or at least a very helpful confirmatory character). There are some 80 species in the UK, but this number is probably underestimated.

This list has been taken from: Hodkinson, I. D. & White, I. M. 1979. Homoptera: Psylloidea. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, vol. II, part 5 (a). Royal Entomological Society of London, London, 98 pp.
and the taxonomy revised according to: Ossiannilsson, F. 1992. The Psylloidea (Homoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavia, vol. 26. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 347 pp.

Body colouring is often very variable within an individual and within species, with many species changing from green or yellow to red, brown and black over the course of several months. Wing venation and spinules, together with the genitalia and the genal cones, provide the best identification cues in many cases.

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Aphalara borealis
Aphalara exilis
Aphalara maculipennis
Aphalara ulicis
Aphalara freiji
Aphorma lichenoides
Arytaina genistae
Arytainilla spartiophila
Bactericera albiventris
Bactericera acutipennis
Bactericera crithmi
Bactericera curvatinervis
Bactericera salicivora
Baopelma foersteri
Cacopsylla affinis
Cacopsylla alaterni
Cacopsylla albipes
Cacopsylla ambigua
Cacopsylla bagnalli
Cacopsylla brunneipennis
Cacopsylla crataegi
Cacopsylla fulguralis
Cacopsylla hippophaes
Cacopsylla mali
Cacopsylla melanoneura
Cacopsylla moscovita
Cacopsylla nigrita
Cacopsylla peregrina
Cacopsylla pruni
Cacopsylla pulchella
Cacopsylla pulchra
Cacopsylla pyri
Cacopsylla pyricola
Cacopsylla pyrisuga
Cacopsylla rhamnicola
Cacopsylla saliceti
Cacopsylla sorbi
Cacopsylla ulmi
Cacopsylla viburni
Cacopsylla visci
Cacopsylla zetterstedti
Calophya rhois
Chamaepsylla hartigii
Craspedolepta flavipennis
Craspedolepta malachitica
Craspedolepta nebulosa
Craspedolepta nervosa
Craspedolepta pilosa
Craspedolepta sonchi
Craspedolepta subpunctata
Ctenarytaina eucalypii
Homotoma ficus
Livia crefeldensis
Livia junci
Livilla ulicis
Psylla alni
Psylla betulae
Psylla buxi
Psyllopsis discrepans
Psyllopsis distinguenda
Psyllopsis fraxini
Pysllopsis frazinicola
Rhinocola aceris
Spanioneura fonscolombii
Strophingia cinereae
Strophingia ericae
Trichochermes walkeri
Trioza abdominalis
Trioza alacris
Trioza apicalis
Trioza centranthi
Trioza chenopodii
Trioza flavipennis
Trioza munda
Trioza proxima
Trioza remota
Trioza rhamni
Trioza galii
Trioza urticae
Trioza vitreoradiata