Bactericera

Bactericera
Bactericera cockerelli, feeding on a potato and infects it with Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Family: Triozidae
Genus: Bactericera
Puton, 1876
Synonyms
  • Rhinopsylla Riley, 1885
  • Paratrioza Crawford, 1910
  • Allotrioza Crawford, 1911
  • Smirnovia Klimaszewski, 1968
  • Klimaszewskiella Lauterer, 1976
  • Eubactericera Li, 1994

Bactericera is a mostly Palaearctic and Nearctic plant louse genus in the family Triozidae; it was erected by Auguste Puton in 1876.