Pleotrichophorus rusticatus (Knowlton & Smith 1937)

Victor, Eastop, F. & Blackman, Roger L., 2005, Some new synonyms in Aphididae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha), Zootaxa 1089, pp. 1-36 : 18

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.273344
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6266441
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6946AD0A-9132-0756-FEA0-F9A3FDA406F1
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scientific name	Pleotrichophorus rusticatus (Knowlton & Smith 1937)
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Pleotrichophorus rusticatus (Knowlton & Smith 1937) = Pleotrichophorus pullus (Gillette & Palmer 1933)

P. rusticatus was regarded as a synonym of P. pullus by Hille Ris Lambers (1969). CorpuzRaros & Cook (1974) resurrected P. rusticatus as a good species on the basis of differences in shape of the frontal hairs, but after examining types of both, we think this is probably only local variation.