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

• Main Authors: Stekolshchikov, Andrey V., Khruleva, Olga A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Aphidomorpha; Aphididae; Aphis; Aphis polaris; Chukotka; Chukotka Autonomous Okrug; Wrangel Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6139030; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F3187A4FFC1FFD0FF057A60FD51F84B

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 River, 5.vii–3.viii.2006 ...