Aspidophorodon Eoessigia David, Rajasingh & Narayanan, 1972

Xu, Ying, Jiang, Li-Yun, Chen, Jing, Kholmatov, Bakhtiyor Rustamovich & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2022, Six new species of Aspidophorodon Verma, 1967 (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Aphidinae) from China, ZooKeys 1106, pp. 1-55 : 1

Subgenus Aspidophorodon Eoessigia David, Rajasingh & Narayanan, 1972

Eoessigia David, Rajasingh & Narayanan 1972: 35. Type species: Eoessigia indicum David, Rajasingh & Narayanan 1972; by original designation.

Indotuberoaphis Chakrabarti & Maity 1984: 198. Type species: Indotuberoaphis sorbi Chakrabarti & Maity 1984; by original designation.

Margituberculatus Zhang, Zhong & Zhang 1992: 381. Type species: Margituberculatus longituberculatum Zhang, Zhong & Zhang 1992; by original designation.

Raychaudhuriella Chakrabarti 1978: 355. Type species: Raychaudhuriella myzaphoides Chakrabarti 1978: 357; by original designation.

Aspidophorodon (Eoessigia) David, Rajasingh & Narayanan: Remaudière and Remaudière 1997: 74; Stekolshchikov and Novgorodova 2010: 44; Nieto Nafría et al. 2011: 198; Chen et al. 2015.

Comments.

Spinal processes at least present on abdominal tergite VIII; antennal tubercles each with an inconspicuous or finger-shaped process at inner apex; antenna 4-6 segmented; cauda with 4-11 setae; mainly on Rosaceae, sometimes on Salicaceae.

The subgenus contains eight species, including three new species. Aspidophorodon (Eoessigia) indicum (David, Rajasingh & Narayanan) is first recorded in China. Aspidophorodon cornuatum Qiao, 2015 is considered as a junior synonym of Aspidophorodon longituberculatum (Zhang, Zhong & Zhang, 1992) syn. nov., as discussed below. Species of this subgenus occur in Canada, China, India, and Russia (the Altai Republic).