Myzus kawatabiensis Miyazaki 1971

Victor, Eastop, F. & Blackman, Roger L., 2005, Some new synonyms in Aphididae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha), Zootaxa 1089, pp. 1-36 : 29

Myzus kawatabiensis Miyazaki 1971 reinstated

To judge from paratypes in the BMNH colln, the synonymy of this species with M. formosanus Takahashi ( Eastop & Hille Ris Lambers 1976) is incorrect. M. kawatabiensis occurs on Polygonum thunbergii in Japan, and possibly also in east Siberia (as M. formosanus, Pashtshenko 1988 ). (It might however be a synonym of the little­known M. polygoniyonai Shinji , described from P. viscosum .)