Takecallis taiwanus
Creators: name: Qiao, Ge-Xia
name: Zhang, Guang-Xue
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Aphidomorpha
Aphididae
Takecallis
Takecallis taiwanus

description: Takecallis taiwanus (Takahashi, 1926)   
 Myzocallis taiwanus Takahashi, 1926: 160.   
 Therioaphis tectae Tissot, 1932: 11.   
 Takecallis taiwanus (Takahashi) - Hille Ris Lambers, 1965: 202; Eastop, 1966: 520; Higuchi, 1968: 30; Higuchi, 1972: 36; Stroyan, 1964: 34; Tao, 1990: 134; Zhang, 1999: 233; Zhang & Zhong, 1983: 157.   
 Material examined. – 2 alate viviparous females (No.Y 2058), Shanghai City, 6 Jun.1978, on Bambusa sp., coll. Ruiliang Yao; 4 al. vivi. females (No. 402), Sichuan (Guanxian County), 27 Jul.1963, on bamboo, coll. Guangxue Zhang and Tiesen Zhong; 10 al. vivi. females (No.Y 1666), Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou City), 29 May.1979, on Phyllostachys arcana, coll. Hengyuan Yan; 8 al. vivi. females (No.Y 899), Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou City), 17 May.1965, on bamboo, coll. Guangxue Zhang and Tiesen Zhong; 7 al. vivi. females (No. 13176, No. 13177, No. 13178), Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou City), 12 May 2000, on Bambusa sp., coll. Huachao Xu; 12 al. vivi. females (No. 5485), Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou City), 26 Apr.1975, on Bambusa sp., coll. Guangxue Zhang; 8 al. vivi. females (No. 5521, No. 5522, No. 5523), Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou City), 29 Apr.1975, on Bambusa sp., coll. Tiesen Zhong; 6 al. vivi. females (No. 5568), Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou City), 4 May.1975, on Phyllostachys bambusoides, coll. Tiesen Zhong; 5 al. vivi. females (No. 5569), Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou City), 4 May.1975, on Bambusa sp., coll. Tiesen Zhong; 4 al. vivi. females (No. 5570), Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou City), 4 May.1975, on Pleioblastus amarus, coll. Tiesen Zhong; 3 al. vivi. females (No. 5578), Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou City), 4 May.1975, on Phyllostachys bambusoides, coll. Guangxue Zhang; 7 al. vivi. females (No. 5659), Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou City), 9 May.1975, on Bambusa stenostach, ZTs; 5 al. vivi. females, No. 6001, Shandong (Taishan Mountain), 12 Jun.1975, on Bambusa stenostach, coll. Tiesen Zhong; 10 al. vivi. females (No. 10698), Yunnan Province (Lijiang City), 13 Apr.1995, on Bambusa sp., coll. Gexia Qiao; 4 al. vivi. females (No. 13355), Yunnan Province (Kunming City), 22 Aug.2002, on Phyllostachys sulphurea, coll. Xiaohong Ou.   
 Host-plants. – In China, host plants include Bambusa stenostach, Phyllostachys arcana, P. bambusoides, P. sulphurea, and Pleioblastus amarus.   
 Distribution. – China: Zhejiang (Hangzhou), Shandong (Taishan), Yunnan (Kunming, Lijiang), Shaanxi (Xi’an), Shanghai, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Taiwan; Japan, Europe, New Zealand, North America.   
 Biology. – The species is an important common pest on bamboo; it mainly infests young plants of bamboo. Generally, the aphid feeds on young leaves not fully developed, and forms numerous colonies.
description: Published as part of Qiao, Ge-Xia & Zhang, Guang-Xue, 2004, Review Of The Genus Takecallis Matsumura (Homoptera: Aphididae: Myzocallidinae) From China And Description Of One New Species, pp. 373-378 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on page 375, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618985