A new species of Chucallis Tao (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Calaphidinae) from China

Authors: Jiang, Li-Yun Country: People's Republic of China DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.146.2042 Published: Jan. 1, 2011 Source: ZooKeys OpenAlex: View in OpenAlex

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Chucallis · Topics: Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Plant and animal studies

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A new species in the aphid genus Chucallis Tao, Chucallis latusigladius Qiao, Jiang & Chen, sp. n. feeding on a species of bamboo, Indocalamus tessellatus (Munro) Keng f., is described. It differs from the only other known species in the genus byremarkably large marginal processes on abdominal tergite IV. A key to species, morphological descriptions, distributional data and host plant information are provided. The type specimens studied are deposited in the National Zoological Museum of China, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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