Aspidophorodon (Eoessigia) longituberculatum (Zhang, Zhong & Zhang, 1992)

Xu, Ying, Jiang, Li-Yun, Chen, Jing, Kholmatov, Bakhtiyor Rustamovich & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2022, Six new species of Aspidophorodon Verma, 1967 (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Aphidinae) from China, ZooKeys 1106, pp. 1-55 : 1

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scientific name	Aspidophorodon (Eoessigia) longituberculatum (Zhang, Zhong & Zhang, 1992)
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Margituberculatus longituberculatum Zhang, Zhong & Zhang 1992: 382; Remaudière and Remaudière 1997: 117; Blackman and Eastop 2006: 1219.

Aspidophorodon (Aspidophorodon) cornuatum Qiao: Chen et al. 2015: 558. Syn. nov.

Aspidophorodon (Eoessigia) longituberculatum (Zhang, Zhong & Zhang): Chen et al. 2015: 570.

Specimens examined.

One alate viviparous female (Holotype), China: Yunnan (Lijiang City, Mt. Yulongxue , altitude 2900 m), 27.V.1980, No. 7165-1-1-1, on Polygonum sp., coll. T.S. Zhong and L.Y. Wang ; Holotype and paratypes of Aspidophorodon cornuatum Qiao , 2015 syn. nov.: one apterous viviparous female, China: Tibet (Yadong County, 27.52°N, 88.97°E, altitude 2800 m), 15.VIII.2010, No. 25908-2-3-1, on Salix cupularis , coll. Y. Wang GoogleMaps ; five apterous viviparous females, with the same collection data as holotype. Other materials: one alate viviparous female, China: Tibet (Yadong County), 11.VII.2014, 32672-1-1, on Salix sp., coll. J. Chen and X.C. Zhu GoogleMaps ; two apterous viviparous females, China: Tibet (Motuo County), 16.IX.2020, No. 49262-1-1, on Salix sp., coll. Y. Xu. ; one apterous viviparous female and one alate viviparous female (slide), one apterous viviparous female (COI: OK668444 View Materials ), one alate viviparous female (COI: OK668445 View Materials ), China: Tibet (Bomi County), 27.VI.2021, 51707-1-1, on Salix sp., coll. Y. Xu.

Comments.

The species was erected in genus Margituberculatus based on only one alate viviparous female ( Zhang et al. 1992). Then the species was removed to the genus Aspidophorodon as Aspidophorodon longituberculatum according to the characters of processes and siphunculi; meanwhile, Aspidophorodon cornuatum was described as a new species ( Chen et al. 2015). At that time, there were no alate viviparous females of Aspidophorodon cornuatum , so it was difficult to compare with the two species. After several surveys in southwest China, apterous viviparous female (Fig. 18C View Figure 18 ) and alate viviparous female (Fig. 18D View Figure 18 ) of Aspidophorodon cornuatum were collected. The alate viviparous female of Aspidophorodon cornuatum is with marginal processes on abdominal tergites I-IV (Fig. 18E View Figure 18 ) which is the same as Aspidophorodon longituberculatum (Fig. 18A, B View Figure 18 ). The molecular data of alate viviparous females of Aspidophorodon longituberculatum and apterous viviparous females of Aspidophorodon cornuatum support they are the same species (Fig. 23 View Figure 23 ). So, Aspidophorodon cornuatum Qiao, 2015 should be considered as junior synonym of Aspidophorodon longituberculatum (Zhang, Zhong & Zhang, 1992).