A new species of Obtusicauda (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from Iran living on Artemisia

Abstract

A new species of the genus Obtusicauda Soliman, 1927 (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Aphidinae: Macrosiphini) is described and illustrated from North-Khorasan province, Iran: Obtusicauda iranica sp. n. The species is described based on apterous viviparous females, an alate viviparous female and oviparous females found living on the terminal parts of shoots of Artemisia sieberi, A. kopetdaghensis, A. scoparia and Artemisia sp. (Asteraceae). The new species is morphologically most similar to Obtusicauda dolychosiphon (Umarov, 1964). This holocyclic aphid is not typically attended by ants.

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Keywords:

• Aphid
• morphology
• Macrosiphini

Acknowledgement

This manuscript was improved through comments by Colin Favret from the University of Montreal, Canada.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the research deputy of the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad under Grant No.406 (P3/33503). MM was supported by the Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran.