Aspidophorodon (Eoessigia) indicum (David, Rajasingh & Narayanan, 1972)
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Aspidophorodon (Eoessigia) indicum (David, Rajasingh & Narayanan, 1972)
Figs 13 View Figure 13 , 14 View Figure 14 , 15 View Figure 15 , 22C-F View Figure 22
Eoessigia indicum David, Rajasingh & Narayanan 1972: 35; Eastop and Hille Ris Lambers 1976: 188; Chakrabarti and Medda 1989: 133.
Raychaudhuriella myzaphoides Chakrabarti 1978: 357.
Raychaudhuriella potentillae Chakrabarti & Maity 1984: 202.
Aspidophorodon (Eoessigia) indicum (David, Rajasingh & Narayanan): Remaudière and Remaudière 1997: 74; Blackman and Eastop 2006: 1098; Stekolshchikov and Novgorodova 2010: 44; Chen et al. 2015.
Specimens examined.
One apterous viviparous female, China: Tibet (Yadong County), 17.VII.2014, No. 32675-1-1, host plant unknown, coll. J. Chen and X.C. Zhu ; four apterous viviparous females, China: Tibet (Cuona County), 01.VI.2016, No. 37202-1-1, No. 37204-1-1, No. 37205-1-1, No. 37208-1-1, on Cotoneaster sp., coll. F.F. Niu ; two apterous viviparous females, China: Tibet (Cuona County), 03.VI.2016, No. 37225-1-1, No. 37232-1-1, on Cotoneaster sp., coll. F.F. Niu ; one apterous viviparous female, China: Tibet (Cuona County), 04.VI.2016, No. 37243-1-1, on Cotoneaster sp., coll. F.F. Niu ; two apterous viviparous females, China: Tibet (Cuona County), 07.VI.2016, No. 37278-1-1, No. 37280-1-1, on Cotoneaster sp., coll. F.F. Niu ; one apterous viviparous female, China: Tibet (Cuona County), 24.VI.2016, No. 37403-1-1, on Cotoneaster sp., coll. F.F. Niu ; two apterous viviparous females, China: Tibet (Cuona County), 03.VI.2016, No. 37229-1-1, No. 37230-1-1, host plant unknown, coll. F.F. Niu ; one alate viviparous female, China: Tibet (Cuona County), 03.VI.2016, No. 37223-1-1, on Cotoneaster sp., coll. F.F. Niu ; two apterous viviparous females (slides) and one apterous vivparous female (COI: OK668434 View Materials ), China: Tibet (Jilong County), 31.VII.2021, No. 52024-1-1, on Cotoneaster sp., coll. Y. Xu ; two fundatrices (slides) and one fundatrix (COI: OK668447 View Materials ), China: Tibet (Jilong County), 01.VIII.2021, No. 52044-2-1, on Cotoneaster sp., coll. Y. Xu.
Comments.
The species is here first recorded in China. After several surveys in Tibet, we collected fundatrices (Figs 13A-D View Figure 13 , 15A-L View Figure 15 , 22F View Figure 22 ), apterous viviparous females (Figs 13E-L View Figure 13 , 14A-J View Figure 14 , 22C-E View Figure 22 ), and alate viviparous females (Figs 13M-Q View Figure 13 , 14K-N View Figure 14 ) feeding on upper sides of Cotoneaster sp. along the main vein (Fig. 22C-F View Figure 22 ). The processes are variable in different morphs. Firstly, the marginal processes of thoracic nota and abdominal tergites I-IV (Figs 13A View Figure 13 , 15E View Figure 15 ) and spinal process of abdominal tergite VIII (Figs 13D View Figure 13 , 15I View Figure 15 ) are very developed in the fundatrix, but the apterae and alatae are without marginal processes, and spinal process of abdominal tergite VIII (Figs 13I View Figure 13 , 14G View Figure 14 ) is shorter than that of the fundatrix. Secondly, about the different geographic populations of apterae, abdominal tergite VIII is with a distinctly triangular spinal process in a population from Jilong County; however, another population collected in Yadong County only has a slightly swollen spinal process.
Aspidophoron being neuter, the adjectival specific epithet is also neuter, so indica is revised as Aspidophoron indicum .
Host plant.
Primary host plants: Cotoneaster obtusus and Cotoneaster sp.; secondary host plant: Potentilla sp. ( Chakrabarti and Medda 1989).
Distribution.
China (Tibet), India.
Biology.
The species colonizes on upper sides of Cotoneaster sp. along the main vein (Fig. 22C-F View Figure 22 ). The species is holocyclic and heteroecious, alternating between Cotoneaster and Potentilla ( Chakrabarti and Medda 1989), and colonizes the undersides of Potentilla without ant-attendance ( Chakrabarti and Maity 1984).
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Aspidophorodon (Eoessigia) indicum (David, Rajasingh & Narayanan, 1972)
Xu, Ying, Jiang, Li-Yun, Chen, Jing, Kholmatov, Bakhtiyor Rustamovich & Qiao, Ge-Xia 2022 |
Raychaudhuriella potentillae
Chakrabarti, Samiran & Maity 1984 |
Raychaudhuriella myzaphoides
Chakrabarti, Samiran 1978 |