Chucallis bambusicola (Takahashi)

Jiang, Li-Yun, Chen 1 ,, Jing & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2011, A new species of Chucallis Tao (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Calaphidinae) from China, ZooKeys 146, pp. 69-81 : 72-73

Chucallis bambusicola (Takahashi)

Myzocallis bambusicola Takahashi 1921: 70

Agrioaphis bambusicola Takahashi 1931: 85; Tseng and Tao 1938: 209.

Chucallis bambusicola (Takahashi): Tao 1964: 62; Tao 1990: 139; Zhang 1999: 228; Qiao et al. 2005: 184-186.

Specimens examined.

2 alate viviparous females, 4 May 1975, Zhejiang (Hangzhou City), No. 5567, on Phyllostachys heteroclada , coll. T.S. Zhong; 1 alate viviparous female, 7 August 1987, Gansu (Chongxin County), No. 8858, on a kind of bamboo, coll. T.S. Zhong; 2 alate viviparpus females and 2 nymphs, 25 July 1986, Gansu (Longxi County), No. 8507, on a kind of bamboo, coll. G.X. Zhang, T.S. Zhong & J.H. Li; 4 alate viviparpus females and 6 nymphs, 22 July 1985, Gansu (Tianshui City, Maijishan Mountain), No. 8092, on a kind of bamboo, coll. G.X. Zhang & T.S. Zhong; 8 alate viviparpus females and 3 nymphs, 1 August 1987, Gansu (Gangu County), No. 8819, on Thamnocalamus spathaceus a, coll. T.S. Zhong.

Distribute.

CHINA: Zhejiang (Hangzhou), Gansu (Chongxin, Longxi, Tianshui, Gangu), Sichuan (Chengdu), Taiwan and Hong Kong ( Tao 1990).

Biology.

On shoots and undersides of leaves of bamboos ( Bambusa stenostachya , Dendrocalamus latiflorus , Phyllostachys heteroclada , Thamnocalamus spathaceus ).The species is very active, jumping when disturbed. Anholocyclic in Taiwan ( Takahashi 1921), and sexual morphs are unrecorded ( Blackman and Eastop 1994).