Comparative study of the superfamily Psylloidea in Iran and East-Azarbaijan

Subject Areas : entomology and othea arthropods

Z.  Ahmadi ¹ (Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran)
A.  Mehrvar ² (Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran)
H.  Lotfalizadeh ³ (Department of Plant Protection, East-Azarbayjan Research Center for Agriculture & Natural Resources, Tabriz, Iran)
Gh.  Gharekhani ⁴ (Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran)

Received: 2012-04-05 Accepted : 2013-02-20 Published : 2013-11-22

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Abstract :

So far, 89 species belonging to 3 families and 8 subfamilies of Psylloidea superfamily has been recorded from Iran. In this study, a comparative revision has been done on the recorded species from all around of Iran and East-Azarbaijan province collected during the years 2010-2011 from grassy plants as well as foliage of trees has been conducted. Out of 6 families existed in the superfamily, 2 families, 7 genera, and 17 species were collected from the province, in which, 14 species are the new records for East-Azarbaijan province. Results showed that the present species of the province are of 3 families, namely, Triozidae, Psyllidae and Homotomidae, and the members of Triozidae family composes high density in the province, comparatively, 68.9 percent of the recorded species of the country are belonging to the family Psyllidae but 69.83 percent of the province species are related to Triozidae. Also, in this study the genus Bactericerashowed the highest number of species in the province, however, Cacopsylla and Trioza are the most abundant genera in Iran, res of pectively.