Anoecia (Anoecia) corni ( Fabricius, 1775 )

Murányi, Dávid, 2018, First records of four aphids (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea) from Macedonia, Ecologica Montenegrina 17, pp. 20-25 : 21-22

Anoecia (Anoecia) corni ( Fabricius, 1775)

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Material examined: Macedonia: Pelagonia region, Bitola municipality, Pelister Mts, Dva Groba , spring of Maloviška Stream , beaten from springside bush, loc.2017/3, 2060 m, N40°59.113’ E21°10.100’, 3.x.2017, leg. Péter Juhász, Tibor Kovács, Dávid Murányi: alate sexupara (AP 40, on slide) .

Diagnosis: Alate Anoeciinae with distinct, round MTu on abdominal terga 1–7, and large, dark dorsal abdominal patch fused on segments 4–6; secondary rhinaria on antennal segments: III 11, IV 3, V 3, VI 1.

Distribution and ecology: A widespread Holarctic species, known also from Argentina. Reported from most of the Balkan countries but Albania, and herein from Macedonia for the first time. This is the first Anoeciinae species reported from the country.

Holocyclic and host alternating between Cornus and Poaceae , sexuparae returning to Cornus from early autumn. The Macedonian specimen was caught probably during migration back to the primary host, at a rather high altitude over 2000 meters.

Aphidinae Latreille, 1802

Figures

Figures 2–3. Alate sexupara of Anoecia (Anoecia) corni (Fabricius, 1775) from Macedonia: 2 – abdomen; 3 – antenna. Scale bars 0.1 mm.