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Descriptions of little-known and unknown morphs ofZelkovaphis caucasica(Hemiptera: Aphididae: Eriosomatinae), with an analysis of its phylogenetic position
- Source :
- Zoology in the Middle East. 61:55-63
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2014.
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Abstract
- Zelkovaphis caucasica is a little-known Caucasian species of leaf-rolling aphids on Zelkova carpinifolia, and was not included in a previous morphological phylogenetic analysis of the tribe Eriosomatini. We redescribe little-known emigrants of Z. caucasica and describe first instars borne by the emigrants, with keys to species for these morphs of the genus Zelkovaphis. Based on the present specimens and a previously published description, we added Z. caucasica to a published data matrix for Eriosomatini species, and re-analysed the phylogenetic relationships of the tribe Eriosomatini. Successive weighting analysis indicated that Z. caucasica branched off at the base of the Eriosomatini phylogeny, as well as other leaf-rolling species on Zelkova. It is therefore suggested that, like other leaf rollers on Zelkova, Z. caucasica is a relict that has survived in glacial refugia.
Details
- ISSN :
- 23262680 and 09397140
- Volume :
- 61
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Zoology in the Middle East
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........de626e313b9eced1f9b70b34ad977aef