Aphid fauna of arctic region of Eurasia

• Main Authors: Stekolshchikov, Andrey V., Buga, Sergey V.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: severe climatic conditions, taxonomic structure, zoogeography structure, life cycles, host plant; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Murmansk; Wrangel Island; Chukotka; Chukotka Autonomous Okrug; nenets; Nenets Autonomous Okrug; Subarctic; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3600245; https://zenodo.org/record/3600245

About 500 aphid species inhabit the arctic zone in Northern hemisphere. Current level of knowledge of aphid species composition is too different for certain arctic and subarctic regions. Due to numerous expeditions to the arctic region of Eurasia during the last years our knowledge of species composition of aphid fauna and its genesis has been deepened significantly. The aphid fauna of Chukotka is more similar to the fauna of North America than to that of Siberia and Europe. From the West to the East proportion of monoecious species is increased but species richness is decreased. Monophagous species are the most numerous among arctic aphids. In conditions when plant hosts are rare some aphids inhabit plants atypical for them, that can lead to genesis of new species. : {"references": ["Shaposhnikov G.C. 1964. Suborder Aphidinea\u2014aphids, pp. 489\u2013616, In: Bei-Bienko G.Y. (Ed.), Keys to the insects of the European USSR. Vol. 1. Apterygota, Palaeoptera, Hemimetabola. Nauka, Moscow & Leningrad. [in Russian]", "Stekolshchikov A.V. 2017. Contribution to the aphid fauna (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha, Aphidomorpha) of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 153(2): 131\u2013155.", "Stekolshchikov A.V., Buga S.V. 2009. Aphid fauna of the Arctic and Subarctic regions. Redia 92: 101\u2013104.", "Stekolshchikov A.V., Buga S.V. 2018. The aphid fauna (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aphidomorpha) of Murmansk province (Russia), with description of Aphis khrulevi, sp.n. and Dysaphis karyakini sp.n. and males of Chaitophorus nigricantis Pintera, 1987. Zootaxa 4527(4): 451-493.", "Stekolshchikov A.V., Khrulevava O.A. 2014. A contribution to the aphid fauna (Hemiptera, Aphididae) of Wrangel Island. Zootaxa 3887(3): 298\u2013320.", "Stekolshchikov A.V., Khrulevava O.A. 2015. Contributions to the aphid fauna (Hemiptera, Aphidoidea) of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug with descriptions of five new species. Zootaxa 4044(1): 1\u201344.", "Stekolshchikov A.V., Kozlov M.V. 2012. Distribution records of aphids (Hemiptera: Phylloxeroidea, Aphidoidea) associated with main forest-forming trees in Northern Europe. Entomologica Fennica 23(4): 206\u2013214.", "Tolmachev A.I., Yurcev B.A. 1970. [The natural history of the Arctic flora in it\u02cas connection with the history of the Arctic Ocean], pp. 87\u2013100, In: Tolmachev A.I. (Ed.). [Severnyi Ledovityi okean i ego poberezh'e v Kajnozoe]. Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad."]}