A new species of Aphis (Homoptera: Aphididae: Aphidina) from Siberia
A.V. Stekolshchikov & T.A. Novgorodova
Abstract. Aphis sibirica sp. nov. is described by apterous and alate viviparous females collected in the Irkutsk and Novosibirsk provinces of Russia at Euphrasia pectinata Ten., Odontites vulgaris Moench, Pedicularis palustris subsp. opsiantha (Ekman) Almq., Rhinanthus serotinus subsp. aestivalis (N.W. Zinger) Dostál (all four from the family Orobanchaceae), Elaeagnus rhamnoides (L.) A. Nelson (Elaeagnaceae), and Medicago sp. (Fabaceae). Diagnostic characters that distinguish the new species from its congeners inhabiting the same plants, and from other polyphagous species of Aphis are discussed.
Key words: taxonomy, Western and Eastern Siberia, Aphididae, new species
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2019, 28(2): 323–332 ▪ Published online 27 December 2019
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2019.28.2.323 ▪ Open full article 
References
Baker A.C. 1917. Life history of Macrosiphum illinoisensis, the grapevine aphis. Journal of agricultural Research, 11(3): 83–90.
Blackman R.L. & Eastop V.F. 2019. Aphids on the World’s Crops: An Identification and Information Guide [online]. London: Natural History Museum. http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info [updated 27 October 2019; viewed 17 November 2019].
Danzig E.M. & Gavrilov-Zimin I.A. 2014. Palaearctic mealybugs (Homoptera: Coccinea: Pseudococcidae). Part 1. Subfamily Phenacoccinae. Fauna of Russia and neighbouring countries. New series, 148. Insecta: Hemiptera: Arthroidignatha. St Petersburg: Zoological Institute of RAS. 678 p.
Favret C., Duggan J.J., Sanders N.J. & Phillippe L.R. 2010. Actual and inferred checklist of the aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with attendant ant and host plant associations. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 112(3): 381–403. https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.112.3.381
Gavrilov-Zimin I.A. & Danzig E.M. 2012. Taxonomic position of the genus Puto Signoret (Homoptera: Coccinea: Pseudococcidae) and separation of higher taxa in Coccinea. Zoosystematica Rossica, 22(1): 97–111.
Heie O. 1986. The Aphidoidea (Hemiptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. III. Family Aphididae: Subfamily Pterocommatinae and Tribe Aphidini of Subfamily Aphidinae. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 17. Leiden, Copenhagen: E.J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press LTD. 314 p.
Shaposhnikov G.Ch. 1964. Suborder Aphidinea – Aphids. In: Bey-Bienko G.Ya. (Ed.). Opredelitel’ nasekomykh Evropeyskoy chasti SSSR [Key to the insects of the European part of the USSR], 1: 489–616. Moscow, Leningrad: Nauka. (In Russian).
Stroyan H.L.G. 1984. Aphids — Pterocommatinae and Aphidinae (Aphidini). Handbooks for the identification of British insects, 2(6). London: The Royal Entomological Society of London. 232 p.
