Aphidura urmiensis, Nieto Nafria, Juan-Manuel, Mier Durante, Milagros-Pilar & Remaudiere, Georges, 2013

Nieto Nafria, Juan-Manuel, Mier Durante, Milagros-Pilar & Remaudiere, Georges, 2013, The genus Aphidura (Hemiptera, Aphididae) in the collection of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, with six new species, ZooKeys 318, pp. 1-33 : 13-14

Aphidura urmiensis sp. n.

Apterous viviparous female

(Fig. 5D). Colour in life unknown. Head yellowish brown to brown. Clypeus bigger than those of the other species of Aphidura . Antennae yellowish brown, with brown segment VI, distal 1/3 of V, and articulation between IV and V. Mesosternal mammariform processes well separated from one another, pale and round. Intersegmental sclerites small and dark brown; spiracular sclerites on segment 7 wider and darker than other abdominal spiracular sclerites; abdominal segments 3-6 with pleural and sometimes very small setiferous spinal sclerites, or with spinopleural sclerites; abdominal terga 7 and 8 pale. Siphunculi with narrow base, cylindrical (usually with slight outward curve) or slightly swollen, and as pale as tibiae. Cauda tongue-shaped, pale like genital and anal plate. Metric and meristic features in Table 4.

Types.

Holotype: Apterous viviparous female (specimen 5), on Spergula marina , Shahi island, Lake Urmia (East Azerbaijan), Iran, 5-VIII-1955, Remaudière leg. (sample i962). Paratypes: 42 apterous with the same data that the holotype; plus 6 apterous viviparae on Spergularia marina , Charimboulaki, Lake Urmia (West Azerbaijan), Iran, 9-VIII-1955, Remaudière leg. (sample i004a).

Etymology.

The specific name, urmiensis is an adjective that refers to lake Urmia, in feminine, from the name of the Catholic Chaldean Archdiocese of Urmia.

Discussion.

The distinctive features of Aphidura urmiensis sp. n., which lives on Spergula marina are summarized in the identification key to apterae of Aphidura in the general discussion and in the following modification to key to aphids on Spergula and Spergularia ( Blackman and Eastop 2006) for addition of Aphidura urmiensis :