›› 2004, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 815-820.

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A review of the genus Nevskyella Ossiannilsson (Homoptera: Aphididae: Saltusaphidinae) with description of one new species

QIAO Ge-Xia, ZHANG Guang-Xue   

  • Online:2004-12-20 Published:2004-12-20

Abstract: This paper dealt with all five species of the genus Nevskyella known or newly found in the world, i.e., N. fungifera (Ossiannilsson), N. sinensis (Zhang, Zhang and Zhong, 1995) N. tuberculata Zhang and Zhang, N. similifungifera sp. Nov., and N. eridionalis HilleRis Lambers and vanden Bosch, of which four species except N. meridionalis have distribution in China. The new combination, N. sinensis (Zhang, Zhang and Zhong, 1995) was proposed based on the enlarged foreand mid-femora and thickened bases of tibiae for leaping, lateral margins of head without setae, and outer margins of hind tibia with normal setae. The former records of N. fungifera (Ossiannilsson, 1953) in China were partly based on misidentified specimens. These isidentified specimens were here identified as one new species. Keys to species, morphological descriptions of the new species, and records of host plants, distribution and biology for all species are provided. The specimens including type specimens are deposited separately in the Zoological Museum, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (IZAS), and the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH).

Key words: Aphididae, Saltusaphidinae, Nevskyella, new species, new combination