Amphorophora (Amphorophora) ampullata Buckton, 1876

Murányi, Dávid, 2018, First records of four aphids (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea) from Macedonia, Ecologica Montenegrina 17, pp. 20-25 : 22

Amphorophora (Amphorophora) ampullata Buckton, 1876

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Material examined: Macedonia: Southeastern region, Radoviš municipality, Plačkovica Mts, brook in a beech forest beneath Beli Kamen resorts, beaten from littoral Dryopteris sp. , loc.2017/7, 1335 m, N41°44.67’ E22°30.35’, 5.x.2017, leg. Péter Juhász, Tibor Kovács, Dávid Murányi: viviparous alate female (AP 42, on slide) .

Diagnosis: Alate, pale Amphorophora with femora scabrous on less than distal half; swollen portion of siphunculi about twice wider than dark proximal portion beneath flange, length 2.6 × cauda; R IV+V 1.15 × HT II and 0.35 × antennal VI BASE, antennal PT/BASE 3.2; secondary rhinaria on antennal segments: III 46–49, IV 14, V 13–18.

Distribution and ecology: A widespread Holarctic species, in the Balkans it was known only from Montenegro and Serbia. This is the first species of the genus reported from Macedonia.

Holocyclic and monoecious on ferns but known from several species of ten fern genera. The single Macedonian specimen was caught in a wet deciduous forest, beaten from an unidentified Dryopteris sp.

Figures

Figures 4–7. Viviparous alate of Amphorophora (Amphorophora) ampullata Buckton, 1876 from Macedonia: 4 – dorsal habitus; 5 – lateral habitus; 6 – antennal segments VI, IV–V and III; 7 – siphunculi. Scale bars 1 mm for Figs. 4– 5, 0.1 mm for Figs. 6–7.