Aradus nuristanicus Hoberlandt, 2023

Heiss, Ernst, 2023, A new species, a new synonymy, a revised generic assignment and new records in some African and Palaearctic Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Zootaxa 5315 (5), pp. 469-478 : 472-473

‘ Aradus nuristanicus Hoberlandt n. sp. ’

= Aradus betulae (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Material examined. ‘ Aradus nuristanicus n. sp. ’: 1♁ ( Fig. 4 ), ‘J. Klapperich / Mangul, 1250 m / Bashgultal, Nuristan / 18. 7. 52, O—Afghan. [p] //cleaned + remounted / by E. HEISS VI[p] I([hw] 201[p]5[hw] // Holotypus [p] ♁ [hw] / Aradus / nuristanicus / n. sp. [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt 19[p]58[hw] //A r a d u s / betulae (L.) / det. E.HEISS 2015 [p]’ ( NMPC).

Comments. Dissection of genitalic structures has shown that they correspond to those of Aradus betulae (Linnaeus, 1758) , hence the examined material of ‘ A. nuristanicus ’ is recognized as conspecific with this species.

Distribution. Aradus betulae is a widespread species distributed in the Palaearctic Region from Great Britain and Spain in the west to the Far East of Russia and Japan in the north-east and Pakistan in the south-east ( Heiss 2001, Aukema et al. 2013). New record for Afghanistan.

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. 1—‘Aradus africanus’ (unavailable) (= A. gracilipes Linnavuori, 1978), intended paratype from Chad, male; 2—Aradus gracilipes from Chad, male; 3—‘Aradus interpositus’ (unavailable) (= A. congoensis sp. nov.), intended holotype from Democratic Republic of the Congo, male; 4—‘Aradus nuristanicus’ (unavailable) (= A. betulae (Linnaeus, 1758)), intended holotype from Afghanistan, male; 5—‘Carventus machadoi’ (unavailable), intended paratype from Angola, female; 6—‘Neuroctenus arnoldi’ (unavailable), intended holotype from Zimbabwe, male. Scales: 1 mm.