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Cinara (Cinara) cuneomaculata

Description

Cinara (Cinara) cuneomaculata (del Guercio, 1909)

Figs 66–68

Diagnosis

Aptera 2.3–4.5 mm, olive brown to dark purplish brown, subshining with a thin greyish wax bloom ventrally and also as a transverse pattern on dorsum, much like the pattern of C. laricis. Small, hairbearing sclerites absent. Holocyclic, monoecious on Larix. Found in forest margins, meadowland etc. In small colonies or scattered along young twigs (usually 0–2 years old). Often ant-attended.

Recorded hosts

Pinaceae: Larix decidua *, kaempferi *, laricina, sibirica *, spp.

Recorded attendant ants

Formicinae: Formica rufa *.

Distribution

D F S.

Notes

Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Aphididae
Genus
Cinara
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Del Guercio
Species
cuneomaculata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cinara (Cinara) cuneomaculata (Guercio, 1909) sec. Albrecht, 2017