Takecallis arundinariae ( Essig, 1917 )

Qiao, Ge-Xia & Zhang, Guang-Xue, 2004, Review Of The Genus Takecallis Matsumura (Homoptera: Aphididae: Myzocallidinae) From China And Description Of One New Species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2), pp. 373-378 : 374-375

Takecallis arundinariae ( Essig, 1917)

Myzocallis arundinariae Essig, 1917: 302 .

Myzocallis bambusifoliae Takahashi, 1921: 73 .

Takecallis arundinariae (Essig) - Hille Ris Lambers, 1965: 202; Eastop, 1966: 520; Higuchi, 1968: 27; Higuchi, 1972: 35; Stroyan, 1964: 34; Paik, 1965: 49; Tao, 1963: 59; Tao, 1964: 220; Tao, 1990: 134; Zhang & Zhong, 1983: 158.

Material examined. – 6 alate viviparous females (No.Y 5839), Hebei Province (Yixian County), 15 May.1985, on Phyllostachys puberula , coll. Shibo Tian ; 10 al. vivi. females (No. 5804), Zhejiang Province ( Hangzhou City ), 24 May.1975, on Bambusa stenostachy , coll. Tiesen Zhong ; 6 al. vivi. females and 7 nymphs (No. 5520), Zhejiang Province ( Hangzhou City ), 29 Apr.1975, on Bambusa sp., coll. Tiesen Zhong ; 6 al. vivi. females and 2 nymphs (No. 5573), Zhejiang Province ( Hangzhou City ), 4 May.1975, on Sinobambusa tootsik , coll. Tiesen Zhong ; 5 al. vivi. females (No. 5659), Zhejiang Province ( Hangzhou City ), 9 May.1975, on Bambusa stenostachy , coll. Guangxue Zhang ; 1 al. vivi. female (No. 7515), Fujian Province ( Wuyishan Mountain ), 23 Apr.1982, on Bambusa stenostachy , coll. Tiesen Zhong ; 2 al. vivi. females (No. 6001), Shandong Province ( Taishan Mountain ), 12 Jun.1975, on Bambusa stenostachy , coll. Tiesen Zhong ; 9 al. vivi. females and 6 nymphs (No.Y 1083), Shandong Province (Qingdao City), 1975, on Bambusa textilis , coll. Zhishou Yu ; 1 al. vivi. female (No. 6777), Hubei Province ( Enshi City ), 23 Oct.1977, on Bambusa rigida , coll. Guangxue Zhang ; 2 al. vivi. females ( No. 8943), Hunan Province (Dayong County), 12 Oct.1988, on Phyllostachys edulis , coll. Tiesen Zhong and Wanyu Zhang ; 1 al. vivi. female ( No. 8938), Hunan Province (Dayong County), 11 Oct.1988, on Bambusa stenostachy , coll. Tiesen Zhong and Wanyu Zhang ; 6 al. vivi. females (No. 10695), Yunnan Province ( Lijiang City ), 13 Apr.1995, on Bambusa sp., coll. Gexia Qiao ; 8 al. vivi. females (No. 7151), Yunnan Province ( Lijiang City ), 24 May.1980, on Bambusa stenostachy , coll. Tiesen Zhong ; 4 al. vivi. females and 2 nymphs (No.Y 1736), Yunnan Province (Songming County), 3 Sep.1979, on Bambusa sp., coll. Tiesen Zzhong ; 1 al. vivi. female and 2 nymphs (No. 7285), Yunnan Province ( Kunming City ), 12 Feb.1982, on Bambusa sp., coll. Guangxue Zhang ; 8 al. vivi. females and 1 nymph (No. 4050, No. 4068), Yunnan Province ( Kunming City ), 18 Feb.1960, on Bambusa sp., coll. Guangxue Zhang ; 2 al. vivi. females ( No. 8632), Gansu Province (Yuzhong County), 4 Sep.1986, on Bambusa sp., coll. Guangxue Zhang and Jinhua Li ; 2 al. vivi. females (No. 13365), Yunnan Province ( Kunming City ), 11 Oct.2002, on Bambusa sp., coll. Yihua Ren.

Host-plants. – Host plants in China include Bambusa lapidea , B. rigid , B. stenostachya , B. textiles , Phyllostachys bambusoides , P. edulis , P. viridis , P. pubescens , Pleioblastus amarus , Sinobambusa tootsik etc. In Japan, host plants are Arundinaria sp., Phyllostachys spp., Sasa nipponica , S. palmate and S. senaanensis (after Higuchi, 1972).

Distribution. – China: Hebei (Yixian), Zhejiang (Hangzhou), Fujian (Wuyishan), Jiangxi (Xingzi), Shandong (Tai’an, Qingdao), Hubei (Enshi), Hunan (Dayong), Sichuan, Yunnan (Kunming, Songming, Lijiang), Gansu (Yuzhong), Taiwan; Japan, Korea, Europe, North America.

Biology. – The aphid infests the under sides of leaves of bamboo singly.