Muscaphis cuspidata (Stroyan, 1955)

Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2015, Identification guide to Nordic aphids associated with mosses, horsetails and ferns (Bryophyta, Equisetophyta, Polypodiophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Aphidoidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 145, pp. 1-55 : 16-17

Muscaphis cuspidata (Stroyan, 1955)

Fig. 14

Diagnosis

Apterae 0.7–1 mm, dark greenish brown to black, abdominal dorsum and siphunculi black, legs brown. Dorsum reticulate, siphunculi conical, distinctly dorsoventrally flattened, squamose–papillose, aperture small, subapical. PT/B = 1.2–1.5, RIV+V/HT2 = 0.9–1.15. Can be found all the year round. Pond and stream margins, often submerged. Monoecious. Not ant-attended.

Recorded hosts

Amblystegiaceae : Drepanocladus aduncus ; Brachytheciaceae : Brachythecium rivulare *; Hypnaceae : Calliergonella cuspidata .

Distribution

F.

Figures

Fig. 14. Muscaphis cuspidata (Stroyan, 1955). A–B. Apt. on Brachythecium rivulare. C. Ovip on Brachythecium rivulare.