Melaphis rhois

• Main Author: Albrecht, Anders Christian
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Aphidomorpha; Aphididae; Melaphis; Melaphis rhois; Pacific; Heie; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793917; https://zenodo.org/record/3793917

Melaphis rhois (Fitch, 1866) Diagnosis Diagnosis based on Pike et al . (2012). Resembling Pachypappella lactea but marginal wax gland plates on segments 1–6 in six longitudinal rows (in P. lactea in four rows on segments 3–6). Legs, antennae and rostrum short and stout; tarsi 1-segmented, ant. normally 4-segmented. RIV+V without pale subapical zone. Dioecious, alternating between leaf galls on Rhus glabra and R. hirta (syn. typhina , Anacardiaceae) and mosses (Bryophyta). In northern Europe anholocyclic on mosses. For detailed descriptions, see Pike et al . (2012). Recorded secondary hosts Brachytheciaceae: Eurhynchium striatum Hypnaceae: Hyocomium armoricum , Hypnum Polytrichaceae: Polytrichum commune Sphagnaceae: Sphagnum. Distribution S (if correctly identified: Heie’s (1980) fig. 243 based on material from Sweden is probably Pachypappella lactea ). : Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2015, Identification guide to Nordic aphids associated with mosses, horsetails and ferns (Bryophyta, Equisetophyta, Polypodiophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Aphidoidea), pp. 1-55 in European Journal of Taxonomy 145 on page 22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.145, http://zenodo.org/record/3787410 : {"references": ["Pike K. S., Graf G., Foottit R. G., Maw H. E. L., von Dohlen C., Harpel J., Pantoja A., Emmert S. & Hagerty A. M. 2012. Eriosomatine aphids (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Eriosomatinae) associated with moss and roots of conifer and willow in forests of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Canadian Entomologist 144: 555 - 576. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.4039 / tce. 2012.49", "Heie O. E. 1980. The Aphidoidea of Fennoscandia and Denmark I. Mindaridae, Hormaphidae, Thelaxidae, Anoecidae and Pemphigidae. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 9. Scandinavian Science Press, Klampenborg."]}