Parathoracaphis manipurensis (Pramanick, Samanta & Raychaudhuri, 1983)

Chen, Jing, Jiang, Li-Yun & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2016, Review of Parathoracaphis Takahashi, 1958 with description of a new species from China (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Hormaphidinae), ZooKeys 623, pp. 61-73 : 64

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Aphididae

Parathoracaphis manipurensis (Pramanick, Samanta & Raychaudhuri, 1983) Figs 1-3

Hoplothoracaphis manipurensis Pramanick, Samanta & Raychaudhuri, 1983: 2.

Parathoracaphis manipurensis : Ghosh 1988: 196; Remaudière and Remaudière 1997: 188.

Specimens examined.

One apterous viviparous female, CHINA: Yunnan (Chuxiong City, Mt. Zixi), 22 Oct 2010, No. 24888, on Castanopsis sp., coll. X.L. Huang (NZMC); 1 apterous viviparous female, CHINA: Yunnan (Chuxiong City, Mt. Zixi), 22 Oct 2010, No. 24894, on Fagaceae , coll. X.L. Huang (NZMC).

Distribution.

China (Yunnan), India.

Host plants.

Castanopsis sp. and Litsea sebifera .

Biology.

Forming large colonies on the undersides of leaves of host plant, attended by ants sometimes (Fig. 2). Apterous adults bear much filiform and flocculent wax (Fig. 3). The life cycle is unknown.

Comments.

Ghosh (1988) described an apterous morph on Amaranthus sp. ( Amaranthaceae ) as a fundatrix of Parathoracaphis manipurensis . However, the specimen was not collected at the type locality, no life cycle observations were conducted, and Amaranthus sp. is unlikely to be a primary host plant of Nipponaphidini species. Additionally, the presence of siphunculi suggests that it does not belong in Parathoracaphis .