Uroleucon
Creators: name: Kanturski, Mariusz
name: Barjadze, Shalva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Aphidomorpha
Aphididae
Uroleucon

description: Key to species of the subgenus Uroleucon with 3 setae on first tarsal segments from Palaearctic
1. SIPH completely dark.................................................................................. 2
- SIPH pale at base or for most part of its length.............................................................. 6
2. URS/HT II 1.50–1.80; cauda with 20–26 setae. On Telekia speciosa. Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine ............................................... Uroleucon telekiae
- URS/HT II 1.00–1.40; cauda with 7–18 setae............................................................... 3
3. SIPH/cauda 1.30–1.33; ABD TERG VIII with 2 setae. On several species of Campanula. Afghanistan, India, Tajikistan ............................................................................................ U. kashmiricum
- SIPH/cauda 1.66–2.70; ABD TERG VIII with 3–7 setae...................................................... 4
4. Presiphuncular sclerites solid and large. On several species of Hieracium. Most European countries and Turkey. U. pilosellae
- Presiphuncular sclerites broken or vestigial................................................................. 5
5. URS wide, elongate wedge–shaped (Figs 1b, 2d); SIPH with distinctly constricted reticulation area (Fig. 2f); Cauda with 7–11 setae. On Serratula centauroides, Serratula sp., Stemmacantha uniflora. Korea, Mongolia, Russian Federation (Far East).................................................................................... Uroleucon mongolicum
- URS narrow, stiletto–shaped (Figs 1a, 2c); SIPH without distinctly constricted reticulation area (Fig. 2e); Cauda with 12–18 setae. On Tragopogon sp. Lebanon .............................................. Uroleucon lebanonense sp. nov.
6. URS/HT II 1.20–1.50. On Artemisia sacrorum, Artemisia sp. Mongolia, Russian Federation (Western Siberia)................................................................................................ Uroleucon dubium
- URS/HT II 0.80–1.17.................................................................................. 7
7. ANT III with 42–69 secondary rhinaria; SIPH/BL 0.23–0.27. On Lactuca spp., and (possibly) Hieracium pilosella. Southern and eastern Europe, Turkey and Iran ...................................................... Uroleucon bielawskii
- ANT III with 6–11 rhinaria; SIPH/BL 0.30–0.45............................................................. 8
8. URS/HT II 0.80–0.94; SIPH/ANT III 1.10–1.25. On Cichorium intybus. Mongolia .................. Uroleucon altaicum
- URS/HT II 1.15–1.17; SIPH/ANT III 1.67-1.78. On Lactuca serriola, Mulgedium tataricum, Sonchus arvensis. Eastern Europe, Central Asia...................................................................... Uroleucon mulgedii
description: Published as part of Kanturski, Mariusz & Barjadze, Shalva, 2020, A new species of the aphid genus Uroleucon from Lebanon, with notes on the systematic positions of U. altaicum, U. bielawskii and U. mulgedii (Hemiptera: Aphididae), pp. 548-561 in Zootaxa 4853 (4) on page 560, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4853.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4411111