Claim · model-written summary
Discordant molecular and morphological identifications suggest the mallow psyllid may be a cryptic species within R. solanicola.
- Taxon
- mallow psyllide0
- Outcome
- may constitute a cryptic speciese0
- Qualifier
- within the polyphagous R. solanicola speciese0
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Verbatim
e0“The molecular identification of the insect does not match the morphological one, indicating that the mallow psyllid may constitute a cryptic species within the polyphagous R. solanicola species.”
Title
First Report of a Psyllid Vector of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni’ (Strain 16SrIII-J)
Tomás Llantén; Sebastián Cabrera; Javiera Fuentes; et al. Plants 2025. doi:10.3390/plants14091279
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Transmission trials found phytoplasma infection in 7 of 113 periwinkle plants (6.2%).
- Observation Insects feeding on trial plants tested positive for the same phytoplasmas.
- Observation Periwinkle plants never showed virescence or phyllody.
- Observation SAP54 primers never yielded an amplification product.
- Observation RFLP analysis placed phytoplasma from trial plants and insects in subgroup 16SrIII-J.
- Observation Psyllid COI sequences showed 84.84% to 85.02% similarity to R. solanicola from potato.
- Method / resource The psyllid mitochondrial genome was a 14,835 bp circular DNA molecule with 37 genes.
- Observation The mallow psyllid transmitted phytoplasma 16SrIII-J to periwinkle, constituting the first reported psyllid vector of this phytoplasma.