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Hexapoda

A new species of Xerobion Nevsky (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from Iran

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Pages 240-245 | Received 15 Apr 2020, Accepted 04 Jul 2020, Published online: 14 Jul 2020
 

Abstract

A new species of aphid, Xerobion eteriae sp. n., is described based on apterous and alate viviparous females, living on Acantholimon (Plumbaginaceae) in Iran. Differences from the most similar species of the genus are presented.

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Supplementary Material

Supplementary material is given as a Supplementary Annex, which is available via the “Supplementary” tab on the article’s online page (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2020.1793503).

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Aleš Bezděk (Institute of Entomology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic) for the loan of a slide with Xerobion lambersi, P. Brown (The Natural History Museum, London, U.K.) for sending photos of some Xerobion aphids and Thierry Bourgoin and Danièle Matile (Muséum National d’Historie Naturelle, Paris) for providing help to the author during working in the aphid collection deposited at the MNHM. We are grateful to Roger Blackman (The Natural History Museum, London) and Juan Manuel Nieto Nafría (Universidad de León, León, Spain) for invaluable information and critical review of an early version of the manuscript. Special thanks go to Susan Halbert (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida, USA) for the linguistic editing of the manuscript.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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