Aphis khrulevi Stekolshchikov & Buga 2018, sp. nov.

Aphis khrulevi sp. nov. (Figs. 10–19, Tabl. 2–3) Eleven fundatrices and 17 apterous viviparous females of this species were collected by G.Ch. Shaposhnikov on 1.vi.1962 from Veronica longifolia L. in the Polar–Alpine Botanical Garden of Kirovsk (Murmansk province). Four fundatrices of this species w...

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Main Authors: Stekolshchikov, Andrey V., Buga, Sergey V.
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Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/6489096
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6489096
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Summary:Aphis khrulevi sp. nov. (Figs. 10–19, Tabl. 2–3) Eleven fundatrices and 17 apterous viviparous females of this species were collected by G.Ch. Shaposhnikov on 1.vi.1962 from Veronica longifolia L. in the Polar–Alpine Botanical Garden of Kirovsk (Murmansk province). Four fundatrices of this species were collected by O.A. Khruleva on 2.vii.2010 from Veronica longifolia in the Eastern Taimyr and a slide with 2 fundatrices of the same species collected by A.V. Ermolenko on 29.vii.1964, apparently from Veronica on Taimyr in the vicinity of Norilsk was received by us from the collection of O.I. Ivanovskaya (Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia—SZM ISEA SB RAS). All these materials formed the basis of the description of this new species. Type material. Holotype: apterous viviparous female, No. 5003 (collection number of ZIN RAS), slide No. 8, “ Aphis khrulevi sp. nov., Murmansk province, Kirovsk, Polar–Alpine Botanical Garden, Veronica longifolia L., 18.vii.1962, on lower side of rolled leaves, coll. G.Ch. Shaposhnikov ”. Paratypes: 11 fund. and 16 apt., No. 5003 (collection number of ZIN RAS), from the same host plant, locality and the same data as holotype; 2 fund., No. 3515 (collection number of SZM ISEA SB RAS), Veronica ?, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Taymyrsky Dolgano–Nenetsky District, Norilsk (nearby Talnakh), 29.vii.1964; 4 fund., No. 10899 (collection number of ZIN RAS), Veronica longifolia L., Krasnoyarsk Krai, Taymyrsky Dolgano–Nenetsky District, the lower course of the Kotuy River, 2.vii.2010. Holotype is deposited at ZIN RAS; paratypes are deposited at collections of ZIN RAS, NHM, MNHN, and SZM ISEA SB RAS. Etymology. New species is named in honor of Russian entomologist Olga Arturovna Khruleva (A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moskow) collected fundatrices of this species in the Eastern Taimyr. Description. Fundatrix. Body broadly elliptical, 1.5–1.7 (1.6) times as long as its width. ...