Aphis polaris Stekolshchikov & Khruleva, 2014, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Stekolshchikov, Andrey V., Khruleva, Olga A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Aphidomorpha; Aphididae; Aphis; Aphis polaris; Wrangel Island; Chukotka; Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6139030; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6139030

Aphis polaris sp. nov. (Figs. 9 –15, 16– 25, Table 2) Type material. Holotype: apterous viviparous female, No. 10148, slide No. 1, “ Aphis polaris sp. n., Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Iultinsky District, Wrangel Island, the middle course of the Mamontova River, 30.vii. 2006, raised terraces with forbs-legume-dryad vegetation, leg. O.A. Khruleva”. Paratypes: 2 fund., No. 10140, from the same locality as holotype, Astragalus alpinus L., 10.vii. 2006; 3 fund., No. 10141, from the same locality as holotype, 28.vi– 9.vii. 2006, pitfall traps; 19 fund., No. 10142, from the same locality as holotype, 9–19.vii. 2006, pitfall traps; 1 fund., No. 10143, from the same locality as holotype, 12.vii. 2006, sweeping; 1 ovip., No. 10144, Somnitel’nye Mountains, 14.vii– 15.viii. 2006, sand-pebbly river floodplain with moss-forbs-semishrub (dryad, dwarf willows) vegetation, pitfall traps; 1 ovip., No. 10145, Somnitel’nye Mountains, 16.vii– 13.viii. 2006, dampish bottom of a hill with shrub-grassy-moss vegetation, pitfall traps; 16 fund., 1 al. and 3 ovip., No. 10146, Somnitel’naya Bay, 16.vii– 14.viii. 2006, a zoogenic mesophytic meadow around an owl resting site, pitfall traps; 1 fund., No. 10147, from the same locality as holotype, 19.vii– 2.viii. 2006, pitfall traps; 3 fund., 1 apt., 1 al. and 1 ovip., No. 10149, from the same locality and the same data as holotype, Astragalus alpinus L.; 1 ovip., No. 10150, from the same locality as holotype, 31.vii– 8.viii. 2006, pitfall traps; 3 fund., No. 10278, Somnitel’naya Bay, Oxytropis sp., 9.vii. 1989, moderate humid plain with moss-legume-forbs-shrub vegetation; 6 fund. and 4 ovip., No. 10282, Somnitel’naya Bay, 19–31.vii. 1988, river valley with forbs-grass-shrubby (dryad, willow) vegetation, pitfall traps; 10 fund., No. 10284, from the same locality as holotype, 9–19.vii. 2006, pitfall traps; 4 fund., No. 10285, Somnitel’naya Bay, 15.vi– 16.viii. 2006, a zoogenic mesophytic meadow around an owl resting site, pitfall traps; 2 fund., No. 10287, the upper course of the Neizvestnaya ...