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Definition of Psylla
1. Noun. Small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices.
Generic synonyms: Louse, Plant Louse
Group relationships: Chermidae, Family Chermidae, Family Psyllidae, Psyllidae
Definition of Psylla
1. n. Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidæ.
Definition of Psylla
1. Noun. (zoology) Any leaping plant louse of the genus ''Psylla'', or family Psyllidae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Psylla
1. any of various plant lice [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psylla
Literary usage of Psylla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"This insect is the commonest and the most destructive flea louse in the United
States. It is common throughout the north- Fig. 154.—Pear.tree psylla: adult ..."
2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"This insect is the commonest and the most destructive flea louse in the United
States. It is common throughout the north- Fig. 154.—Pear-tree psylla: adult ..."
3. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"Genital segment long, pointed, conical. Cape Rouge. psylla ... psylla, sp. (?)
A few apparently new species are not sufficiently represented in the ..."
4. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"The adult psylla has been aptly likened to a diminutive cicada or dog-day
harvest-fly (Fig. 201); they are about 1'ff inch in length, dark reddish-brown in ..."
5. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"Iron sulphate is chiefly used and gives the best results in the destruction of
lichen and moss, but it may be also used for the control of psylla mali, ..."
6. Report on the Injurious Insects and Other Animals Observed in the Midland by Walter Edward Collinge (1908)
"THE ASH psylla. psylla fraxini. From Staffordshire and Worcestershire correspondents,
many inquiries have been received respecting this insect. ..."
7. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1895)
"So it must bo the same as the European species mentioned, or else we have not
seen a specimen of the real psylla quadrilineata, Fitch. mentioned in bulletin ..."
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