Mollitrichosiphum (Mollitrichosiphum) tenuicorpus Okajima
Creators: name: Zhang, Dong
name: Qiao, Gexia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Aphidomorpha
Aphididae
Mollitrichosiphum
Mollitrichosiphum tenuicorpus

description: Mollitrichosiphum (Mollitrichosiphum) tenuicorpus (Okajima)
(Figures 10, 11 a, b)
Trichosiphum tenuicorpus Okajima, 1908: 22
Greenidea tenuicorpus (Okajima): Takahashi, 1930: 325.
Paratrichosiphum tenuicorpus (Okajima): Takahashi, 1931: 32.
Metatrichosiphon (Neotrichosiphon) tenuicorpus (Okajima): Raychaudhuri, 1956: 88.
Mollitrichosiphum (Mollitrichosiphum) shinjii Raychaudhuri, Ghosh, Banerjee & Ghosh, 1973: 70.
Mollitrichosiphum (Mollitrichosiphum) tenuicorpus (Okajima): Raychaudhuri & Chatterjee, 1980: 355; Tao, 1990: 114; Ghosh & Agarwala, 1993: 273; Noordam, 1994: 125; Remaudière & Remaudière, 1997: 176.
Material examined. China, Taiwan: Suisha, 2.x.1929, No. 18104, 5 alate viviparous females and 7 viviparous nymphs on Lithocarpus sp. (R. Takahashi) (BMNH); Botan, 25.v.1934, No. 18104, 4 alate viviparous females (R. Takahashi) (BMNH); China, Fujian: Mt. Wuyi, 30.vii.1983, No. 7741, 4 apterous viviparous females and 1 alate viviparous female (B.L. Zhang); Mt. Wuyi, alt. 820m, 6.vii.2003, No. 14421, 1 apterous viviparous female and 1 alate viviparous female on Castanea sp. (X.L. Huang); Mt. Wuyi, 19.vii.2003, No. 14537, 1 apterous viviparous female and 1 alate viviparous female on Castanopsis sclerophylla (G.X. Qiao & X.L. Huang). China, Hainan: Bawangling, alt. 350m, 26.iii.2007, No. 19242, 3 apterous viviparous females and 1 alate viviparous female on Fagaceae (G.X. Qiao); Mt. Diaoluo, alt. 265m, 27.iii.2006, No. 18482, 1 apterous viviparous female and 2 alate viviparous females on Castanopsis indica; Mt. Diaoluo, alt. 700m, 29.iii.2006, No. 18506, 4 apterous viviparous females on Cyclobalanopsis neglecta; Mt. Diaoluo, alt. 265m, 27.iii.2006, No. 18487, 1 apterous viviparous female on Castanopsis indica; Mt. Diaoluo, alt. 800m, 30.iii.2006, No. 18513, 2 alate viviparous females on Fagaceae; Mt. Jianfeng, 16.xi.2006, No. 19521, 2 apterous viviparous females and 4 apterous viviparous nymphs on Quercus sp. (X.L. Huang); Jianfengling, alt. 900m, 5.iii.1984, No. 7809, 1 alate viviparous female on Quercus sp. (T.S. Zhong); Changjiang: Bawangling, alt. 1015m, 8.v.2007, No. 19611, 1 alate viviparous female; Jianfengling, alt. 520m, 15.xii.2007, No. 20866, 2 alate viviparous females on Fagaceae (X. Y. Wang). China, Guangdong: Shixing: Chebaling, alt. 400m, 13.iv.2006, No. 18614, 1 apterous viviparous female and 2 alate viviparous females on Castanopsis carlesii; Chebaling, alt. 400m, 17.iv.2006, No. 18644, 1 apterous viviparous female on Castanopsis carlesii. China, Guangxi: Yulin: Liuwanhe, 18.x.1981, No. Y 6644, 2 alate viviparous females, 1 apterous viviparous nymphs and 3 alate viviparous nymphs on Castanopsis hystrix (X.M. Huang); Beiliu, 25.v.1981, No. Y 6614, 10 apterous viviparous nymphs on Castanopsis hystrix (Y.D. He); Rongxian, 3.vii.1981, No. Y 6636, 11 apterous viviparous nymphs on Castanopsis hystrix (Y.D. He); Rongxian, 8.vii.1981, No. Y 6629, 10 apterous viviparous nymphs and 1 alate viviparous nymph on Castanopsis hystrix (Y.D. He); Longsheng, 18.v.2006, No. 18892, 4 apterous viviparous females on Fagaceae (J.F. Wang). China, Yunnan: Simao: Meizihu, 27.vii.2007, No. 20530, 1 apterous viviparous females and 4 alate viviparous females on Castanopsis ferox (G.X. Qiao); Baoshan: Baihualing, 20.ix.2002, No. 13361, 3 apterous viviparous females, 2 apterous viviparous nymphs and 2 alate viviparous nymphs on Meliosma rigida (X.H. Ou). China, Xizang: Medog, 14.viii.2003, No. 15381, 4 apterous viviparous females on Alnus cremastogyne (G.X. Qiao & X.L. Huang).
Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Xizang, Taiwan), India, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia.
Host plants. Castanopsis spp., Cyclobalanopsis neglecta (Fagaceae), Meliosma rigida (Sabiaceae) and Alnus cremastogyne (Betulaceae).
description: Published as part of Zhang, Dong & Qiao, Gexia, 2010, Mollitrichosiphum Suenaga from China (Hemiptera: Aphididae), with the description of one new species, pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 2608 on pages 19-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197753