A new species of Chucallis Tao (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Calaphidinae) from China

Abstract. A new species in the aphid genus Chucallis Tao, Chucallis latusigladius Qiao, Jiang & Chen, sp. n. feeding on a species of bamboo, Indocalamus tessellatus (Munro) Keng f., is described. It differs from the only other known species in the genus by having remarkably large marginal proces...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Li-Yun, Chen, Jing, Qiao, Ge-Xia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3233706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22346560
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.146.2042
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Sumario:Abstract. A new species in the aphid genus Chucallis Tao, Chucallis latusigladius Qiao, Jiang & Chen, sp. n. feeding on a species of bamboo, Indocalamus tessellatus (Munro) Keng f., is described. It differs from the only other known species in the genus by having remarkably large marginal processes on abdominal tergite IV. A key to species, morphological descriptions, distributional data and host plant information are provided. The type specimens studied are deposited in the National Zoological Museum of China, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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