A new species of Chucallis Tao (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Calaphidinae) from China
Author
Jiang, Li-Yun
Author
Chen 1 ,, Jing
Author
Qiao, Ge-Xia
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ZooKeys
2011
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.146.2042
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.146.2042
1313-2970-146-69
Chucallis bambusicola (Takahashi)
Myzocallis bambusicola
Takahashi 1921
: 70
Agrioaphis bambusicola
Takahashi 1931
: 85;
Tseng and Tao 1938
: 209.
Chucallis
bambusicola
(Takahashi):
Tao 1964
: 62;
Tao 1990
: 139;
Zhang 1999
: 228;
Qiao et al. 2005
: 184-186.
Specimens examined.
2 alate viviparous females, 4 May 1975, Zhejiang (Hangzhou City), No. 5567, on
Phyllostachys heteroclada
, coll. T.S. Zhong; 1 alate viviparous female, 7 August 1987, Gansu (Chongxin County), No. 8858, on a kind of bamboo, coll. T.S. Zhong; 2 alate viviparpus females and 2 nymphs, 25 July 1986, Gansu (Longxi County), No. 8507, on a kind of bamboo, coll. G.X. Zhang, T.S. Zhong & J.H. Li; 4 alate viviparpus females and 6 nymphs, 22 July 1985, Gansu (Tianshui City, Maijishan Mountain), No. 8092, on a kind of bamboo, coll. G.X. Zhang & T.S. Zhong; 8 alate viviparpus females and 3 nymphs, 1 August 1987, Gansu (Gangu County), No. 8819, on
Thamnocalamus spathaceus
a, coll. T.S. Zhong.
Distribute.
CHINA: Zhejiang (Hangzhou), Gansu (Chongxin, Longxi, Tianshui, Gangu), Sichuan (Chengdu), Taiwan and Hong Kong (
Tao 1990
).
Biology.
On shoots and undersides of leaves of bamboos (
Bambusa stenostachya
,
Dendrocalamus latiflorus
,
Phyllostachys heteroclada
,
Thamnocalamus spathaceus
).The species is very active, jumping when disturbed. Anholocyclic in Taiwan (
Takahashi 1921
), and sexual morphs are unrecorded (
Blackman and Eastop 1994
).