Technical Abstract: Though wide spread in nature, this is the first report of a fijiviruses from North America detected in a new virus host species, the Asian citrus psyllid. Few viruses have ever been reported from psyllids. We discovered an insect infecting virus in field collected Asian citrus psyllids in Florida. The Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) is a small insect that feeds on the phloem sap of citrus trees and is the primary vector of the plant pathogenic bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticum, which causes Huanglongbing, HLB, also known as 'Citrus Greening' due to discoloration of fruit. The bacterium causes severe economic losses to citrus industries worldwide and has recently been identified in Florida, 2005. Traditional control measurements of the psyllid, which was discovered in Florida in 1998, have proven to be ineffective and costly. Biological control measurements provide environmentally friendly management tools of insect pests. We examined an expression library prepared from adult psyllids in search of new pathogens. We identified two viral sequences, of 890 and 1050 base pairs respectively, both of which had significant similarity to viruses within the insect Reovirus group. Phylogenetic and homology comparisons using BLASTX, BLASTP and PAUP analyses indicated that the viral sequences were closely related to the viruses in the Family: Reoviridae, Genus: Fijivirus, specifically Nilaparvata lugens reovirus (NLRV) described from planthoppers a closely related group of insects within the Hemiptera. Insect reoviruses are transmitted by delphacid planthoppers in a circulative propagative manner. Further survey efforts aim at detecting reovirus-like sequences in different psyllid population, as well as molecular characterization of the viral genomes, and insect pathogenicity test are the steps needed to explore the uses of Reovirus as a biological control agent of psyllids and other Hemipterans.