Aphidura mingens Pintera 1970 = Aphidura picta Hille Ris Lambers 1956

Aphidura picta was described from a single specimen from cultivated Dianthus in Israel, which seems untypical of the species as a whole. Specimens in the BMNH collection subsequently collected from Dianthus in former Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey, and from Silene conoidea in Iran, have a relatively longer antennal processus terminalis and a longer, more hairy last rostral segment than the type of picta, and are not clearly distinguishable from paratypes of A. mingens Pintera, described from S. thymifolia on the Black Sea coast, and also found on S. fruticosa in Sicily (Barbagallo & Stroyan 1982).