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The Australian endemic tea tree, <jats:italic>Melaleuca alternifolia<\/jats:italic> (Maiden &amp; Betche) Cheel., has been used for more than a century to extract essential oils and, long before that, as a traditional medicine by Indigenous Australian people. Recently, a triozid species has been found to damage the new growth of tea trees both in Queensland and New South Wales, raising interest around this previously undocumented pest. Furthermore, adults of the same species were also collected from <jats:italic>Citrus<\/jats:italic> plantations, leading to potential false-positive records of the exotic pest <jats:italic>Trioza erytreae<\/jats:italic> (Del Guercio 1918), the African Citrus psyllid. Here we describe for the first time <jats:italic>Trioza melaleucae<\/jats:italic> Martoni <jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> providing information on its distribution, host plant associations and phylogenetic relationships to other <jats:italic>Trioza<\/jats:italic> species. This work enables both morphological and molecular identification of this new species, allowing it to be recognized and distinguished for the first time from exotic pests as well as other Australian native psyllids. 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