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

By

Jiang, Li-Yun
Chen, Jing
Qiao, Gexia. 乔格侠, 1966-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

146

Pages

69-81

Subjects

Aphididae , China , Chucallis , Drepanosiphinae , new species

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.146.2042

 

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 byremarkably 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.