Aphidina

Stekolshchikov, Andrey V. & Khruleva, Olga A., 2020, Contribution to the aphid fauna (Homoptera, Aphidinea) of the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District and the krai city of Norilsk, with descriptions of two new species of the genus Metopolophium, Zootaxa 4748 (1), pp. 87-118 : 93-94

Subtribe Aphidina

Aphis galiae Ivanovskaja

Published information. Ivanovskaya (1977) indicates that this species was collected from Betula nana in the vicinity of Norilsk (NUO). We managed to study a slide on which there is an apterous viviparous female collected on 24 July 1964 from Betula nana in the vicinity of Talnakh and identified by Ivanovskaya as Aphis galiae . However, the slide is in bad condition, the aphids are poorly visible and they can hardly be identified even to genus, so it is impossible to confirm or disprove Ivanovskaya’s determination.

Aphis khrulevae Stekolshchikov et Buga

Published information. Ivanovskaya (1977) recorded that Aphis verbasci Schrank was collected in the vicinity of Norilsk (NUO) and that aphids of this species live in the territory of Siberia on Verbascum . We managed to study a slide on which there are two apterous viviparous females collected on 24 July 1964 from “ Veronica ?” in the vicinity of Talnakh and identified by Ivanovskaya as Aphis verbasci . These aphids, two fundatrices, were included, along with material from the Murmansk region and several other fundatrices collected by O.A. Khruleva in the lower course of Kotuy River in 2010, in the description of the new species Aphis khrulevae Stekolshchikov et Buga. We do not know if Ivanovskaya had other material from Taymyr that she could diagnose as Aphis verbasci ; however, plants of genus Verbascum are completely absent from the flora of the region, suggesting the record of this species in Taymyr was the result of an erroneous determination.

Material. LCK: 2.vii.2010, Veronica longifolia L., fund. (OKh) . NUO: near to Talnakh, 29.vii.1964,? Veronica sp., fund . ( AE).

Aphis mirifica (Börner)

Material. NUO: near to Talnakh, 25.vii.2017, Epilobium angustifolium L., on apices of stems between flowers, apt. ( AS) .

Aphis neothalictri Pashtshenko

Material. NUO: near to Talnakh, 28.vii.2017, Thalictrum minus L., on stem near flowers, apt. ( AS) .

Aphis praeterita Walker

Published information. Talnakh ( NUO), on Epilobium angustifolium ( Ivanovskaya 1977) .

Aphis rumicis Linnaeus

Material. NUO: near to Talnakh, 20.vii.2017, Rumex sp., on apices of stems, apt., ovip. and 26.vii.2017, Rumex sp., on apices of stems between flowers and on lower side of leaves, apt., al. ( AS).