A new species of Atheroides Haliday (Hemiptera, Aphididae) native to North America

By

Miller, Gary
Jensen, Andrew
Metz, Mark
Parmenter, Robert

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

452

Pages

35-50

Subjects

Aphididae , Atheroides , Chaitophorinae , Cladistics , Nearctic , new species , Siphini , Valles Caldera National Preserve

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.452.8089

 

Abstract

We report and describe the first species of Atheroides Haliday presumed to be native to North America, collected at the Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, USA. We hypothesize its placement among the Siphini based on morphological, phylogenetic analysis and extend the distribution of the genus to the Holoarctic. We expand the key of the known Atheroides to include the new species and discuss the current hypotheses of the geographic distribution of the type species, Atheroides serrulatus Haliday.