Aphis spinarum Hartig 1841
Authors/Creators
- 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 spinarum Hartig, 1841: 370. SYNTYPES: 14 (150 [8.04] lost; 1226 [8.05], 3 lost), Prunus spinosa.
Hyalopterus pruni (Geoffroy, 1762) (senior synonym—Börner, 1952: 68). Valid
Specimens. Six pointed on a single pin (150) with leaf tissue collected from Prunus spinosa in 1840. All specimens lost. Note that the leaf tissue appears to be coated in white powdery mildew, as described in Hartig (1841).An additional eight pointed specimens on a single pin collected in 1839 (1226). Three specimens are lost, and the rest are nymphs.
Remarks. Börner (1952) treated Aphis spinarum Hartig, 1841 as a synonym of Hyalopterus pruni (Geoffroy, 1762), and Favret et al. (2017) reaffirmed this on the basis of host-association. Unfortunately, all specimens that were clearly associated with Prunus spinosa, as determined by Hartig’s notes, have been lost with the exception of pinned host tissue (150) that appears to contain traces of a waxy residue and possibly aphid exuviae. The only remaining type specimens (1226) associated with the A. spinarum label are clearly not H. pruni, and while they appear to belong to the Macrosiphini, their exact identity is yet to be determined. Hartig wrote that they were observed feeding together around the peduncles of their host plant, but the host itself was not identified.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hartig
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Aphididae
- Genus
- Aphis
- Species
- spinarum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aphis spinarum 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.
- Geoffroy, M. E. - L. (1762) Histoire abregee des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont ranges suivant un ordre methodique. C. Durand, Paris, 523 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 14710
- Favret, C., Meshram, N. M., Miller, G. L., Nieto Nafria, J. M. & Stekolschikov, A. V. (2017) The mealy plum aphid and its congeners: a synonymic revision of the Prunus - infesting aphid genus Hyalopterus (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 119, 565 - 574. https: // doi. org / 10.4289 / 0013 - 8797.119.4.565