Aphidura graeca, Nieto Nafria, Juan-Manuel, Mier Durante, Milagros-Pilar & Remaudiere, Georges, 2013

Nieto Nafria, Juan-Manuel, Mier Durante, Milagros-Pilar & Remaudiere, Georges, 2013, The genus Aphidura (Hemiptera, Aphididae) in the collection of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, with six new species, ZooKeys 318, pp. 1-33 : 12-13

Aphidura graeca sp. n.

Apterous viviparous female

(Fig. 5C). Colour in life unknown. Head pale yellow. Antennal segment I-IV and proximal half of V as pale as cephalic dorsum, distal part of V and VI yellow brown. Dorsum of thorax and abdomen membranous and pale, with yellowish brown spiracular and brown intersegmental sclerites. Mesosternal mammariform processes low, rugose and pale. Siphunculi gently and asymmetrically swollen, rugose and more-or-less pigmented like tibiae. Cauda tongue-shaped with broad apex, pigmented like siphunculi. Anal and genital plates as pale as cauda. Metric and meristic features in Table 4.

Types.

Holotype: Apterous viviparous female, on Gypsophila sp., Veria [road to Kastania] (Imanthia), Greece, 18-VI-1964, G. Remaudière leg. (sample 03026).

Etymology.

The specific name of the new species is an adjective that means inhabitant of Greece, in feminine.

Discussion.

Aphidura graeca sp. n. lives on Gypsophila , as does Aphidura gypsophilae , and also Aphidura pannonica , which has been above recorded on this plant-genus for first time. The distinctive features of Aphidura graeca are summarized in the identification key to apterae of Aphidura in the general discussion and in the following modification to the key to aphids on Gypsophila ( Blackman and Eastop 2006), to include Aphidura graeca and Aphidura pannonica , and also Aphidura naimanica and Aphidura togaica , which have recently been described ( Kadyrbekov 2013):