Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha)
Albrecht, Anders Christian
European Journal of Taxonomy
2017
2017-07-24
338
1
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VCZ4
(Del Guercio, 1909)
Del Guercio
1909
[469,1118,395,422]
Insecta
Aphididae
Cinara
GBIF
Animalia
Hemiptera
42
43
Arthropoda
species
tujafilina
Cupressobium
Fig. 118
Diagnosis Apterae 1.5–3.2 mm, reddish-brown with a whitish dorsal wax coating, leaving two longitudinal stripes and parts of the area around siphunculi bare and shining. Mostly anholocyclic ( Blackman & Eastop 1994) on various Cupressaceae. Tibiae dark only at apices. On foliated and bare branches, wounds, roots. Attended by ants.
Recorded hosts Cupressaceae: Chamaecyparis lawsoniana; Cupressussp.; Juniperus, chinensis, communis, procumbens, virginiana, spp.; Thuja occidentalis; Thujopsis dolabrata. Recorded attendant ants Formicinae: Lasius niger.
Distribution Almost cosmopolitan. Not yet recorded from North Europe.
F5 (F2 F6) Siphunculi conical, 1.5–2 times as long as wide............ Brachycaudusvan der Goot, 1913