Subfamily/Tribe: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini

Distribution: Northern Europe, NSW 

Economic Status: The species is restricted to ornamental birch trees, particularly the silver birch, to which it causes extensive chlorosis giving the trees a mottled appearance.

Notes: This European species was only discovered in Australia early in 1998 on silver birch, Betula pendula, in Orange, on the New South Wales Central Tablelands (Fletcher and Knight 1998). A comparison with a New Zealand record (identified as Kybos betulicola) from 1964 (Dumbleton 1964) indicates that the species in New Zealand is identical.

Document 04394, submitted 13 January 1999
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