insects Article Chemosensory Gene Families in the Oligophagous Pear Pest Cacopsylla chinensis (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) Ji-Wei Xu 1, Xiu-Yun Zhu 1, Qiu-Jie Chao 1, Yong-Jie Zhang 1, Yu-Xia Yang 1, Ran-Ran Wang 1, 1 1 1 1 2 1, , Yu Zhang , Meng-Zhen Xie , Ya-Ting Ge , Xin-Lai Wu , Fan Zhang , Ya-Nan Zhang * y, Lei Ji 1,* and Lu Xu 3,* 1 College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, China;
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[email protected] (L.X.) First corresponding author. y Received: 26 April 2019; Accepted: 12 June 2019; Published: 17 June 2019 Abstract: Chemosensory systems play an important role in insect behavior, and some key associated genes have potential as novel targets for pest control. Cacopsylla chinensis is an oligophagous pest and has become one of the main pests of pear trees, but little is known about the molecular-level means by which it locates its hosts.