Aacanthocnema burckhardti
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| Aacanthocnema burckhardti | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Triozidae |
| Genus: | Aacanthocnema |
| Species: | A. burckhardti |
| Binomial name | |
| Aacanthocnema burckhardti Taylor, 2011 | |
Aacanthocnema burckhardti is a species of jumping plant louse, first found as a sap-sucker on plants of the genus Allocasuarina in Australia. The species is characterised by exhibiting an elongate habitus; short Rs and short cubital forewing cells; ventral genal processes beneath the apical margin of its vertex; short antennae; and nymphs that are elongate and very sclerotised (scale-like). It lacks hinaria on its eighth antennal segment as well as sclerotised spurs on its hind tibia. Females of the species lack a posterior apical hook on their proctiger.[1]
The species was first described by Gary S. Taylor in 2011,[2][1] and is named after Daniel Burckhardt from the Naturhistorisches Museum, in Basel, who collected the type material.[1]
