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Aphis vitellinae Hartig 1841

  • 1. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa Research and Development Centre, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K 1 A 06 C, Canada.
  • 2. Sektion Hemiptera, Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (SNSB - ZSM), Münchhausenstrasse 21, 81247 München, Germany. raupach @ snsb. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8299 - 6697
  • 3. LWL-Museum für Naturkunde mit Planetarium, Sentruper Strasse 285, 48161 Münster, Germany. https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0005 - 2193 - 2362
  • 4. United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 51 Mill Pond Road, Hamden, Connecticut 06514, USA.

Description

Aphis vitellinae Hartig, 1841

Aphis vitellinae Hartig, 1841: 369. SYNTYPES: 3 (1706 [7.04]; 1708 [7.06] lost; 1752 [7.05] lost), Salix viminalis.

Aphis vitellinae Schrank, 1801 (senior primary homonym— Hottes, 1930a: 184).

Tuberolachnus salignus (Gmelin, 1789) (senior synonym—Börner, 1952: 45). Valid

Specimens. A single pointed alate (1706) collected in 1836. Two other pointed specimens (1708 and 1752) lost. Hartig’s notes for 1706 and 1708 indicate the specimens were collected with sawfly galls between September 10 and October 1, 1836. Specimen 1752 was collected with galls on Salix viminalis between October 15 and November 1, 1836.

Remarks. The specimen is not in agreement with the current use of the name T. salignus. It is black and hairless with red legs and black tarsi, as Hartig (1841) described. Börner (1952) recognized the synonymy but again likely without having seen Hartig’s specimens or providing a justification so the synonymy is probably incorrect.As discussed by Hottes (1930a), Aphis vitellinae [= Chaitophorus vitellinae] Schrank, 1801 has priority over Aphis vitellinae Hartig 1841 so the latter may require a replacement name if its synonymy with T. salignus is not supported and there are no other available synonyms.

Notes

Published as part of Brunet, Bryan M. T., Raupach, Michael J., Rehage, Heinz-Otto, Havill, Nathan P. & Foottit, Robert G., 2023, Discovery of the primary aphid (Hemiptera: Aphidomorpha) and scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) type specimens from the collection of Theodor Hartig (1805 - 1880), pp. 89-116 in Zootaxa 5369 (1) on page 101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5369.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/10144745

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hartig
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Aphididae
Genus
Aphis
Species
vitellinae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aphis vitellinae Hartig, 1841 sec. Brunet, Raupach, Rehage, Havill & Foottit, 2023

References

  • Hartig, T. (1841) IX. Versuch einer Eintheilung der Pflanzenlause (Phytophthires Burm.) nach der Flugelbildung. Zeitschrift fur die Entomologie, 3, 359 - 376.
  • Schrank, F. von P. (1801) Fauna Boica. Durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere, Zweyter Band, erste Abtheilung. J. W. Krull, Ingolstadt, 374 pp.
  • Hottes, F. C. (1930 a) Aphid homonyms. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 43, 179 - 184.
  • Gmelin, J. F. (1789) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differntiis, synonymis, locis. Tom. I. Pars. IV. J. B. Delamolliere, Lugduni, pp. 1517 - 2224.