Metopolophium taimyricum Stekolshchikov & Khruleva 2020, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Stekolshchikov, Andrey V., Khruleva, Olga A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Aphidomorpha; Aphididae; Metopolophium; Metopolophium taimyricum; Medusa; Kamen’; Dikson; Agapa; Maksimovka; Dolgano-Nenets; Krasnoyarsk Krai; nenets; Tundra
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3704351; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3704351

Metopolophium taimyricum sp. nov. (Figs. 16–33, Tabl. 3–4) Type material. Holotype: apterous viviparous female, No. 10875, slide No. 1, specimen 3 (the left specimen in the bottom row) “ Metopolophium taimyricum sp. nov., sweeping on Hedysarum hedysaroides subsp. arcticum , Krasnoyarsk Krai, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenets District, near to Pyasino Lake (70° 04ˊ N, 87° 39ˊ E), 24.vii.2001, leg. О.А. Khruleva”. Paratypes: 1 fund., No. 10869, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenets District, the upper course of the Nizhnaya Agapa River (70° 05ˊ N, 87° 26ˊ E), 3.vii.2001, forb-grassy meadow in a creek valley, sweeping on Hedysarum hedysaroides subsp. arcticum; 3 apt., No. 10873, the same locality, 19.vii.2001, patchy herb-moss tundra, sweeping; 4 apt., 1 al., No. 10875, the same locality and date as holotype, the rocky top of hill with patchy legume-herb-dryad-moss tundra, sweeping on Hedysarum hedysaroides subsp. arcticum; 4 apt., No. 10879, the same locality as No. 10869, 28.vii.2001, willow-herb-dryad-moss tundra on the top of hill, sweeping; 1 al., No. 10880, the same locality as No. 10869, 28.vii.2001, forb-grass meadow in a creek valley, sweeping; 2 apt., 1 al., No. 10883, the same locality as No. 10869, 29.vii.2001, sweeping; 4 fund., No. 10889, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenets District, near to Medusa Bay, Varavikova River (13 km south of Dikson Vill., 73° 24ˊ N, 80° 44ˊ E), 22–27.vii.2002, gravelly south-facing slope of the river terrace with spotted willow-dryad-moss cover, pitfall traps; 16 fund., 2 apt., 1 al., 22 males, 6 ovip., No. 10891, the same locality as No. 10889, 2.vii–4.viii.2004, pitfall traps; 1 fund., No. 10892, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenets District, near to Efremov Kamen’ Bay, Maksimovka River (32 km south of Dikson Vill., 73° 14ˊ N, 80° 44ˊ E), 5–30.vii.2004, river floodplain with willow-legume-moss cover, pitfall traps; 1 fund., No. 10893, the same locality as No. 10892, 5–30.vii.2004, gravelly dry plot in the river valley with a forb-moss-dryad cover, pitfall traps; ...