Akkaiopsis Zhang, Chen, Zhong & Li, 1999

Victor, Eastop, F. & Blackman, Roger L., 2005, Some new synonyms in Aphididae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha), Zootaxa 1089, pp. 1-36 : 4

Akkaiopsis Zhang, Chen, Zhong & Li , in Zhang 1999 = Tuberocephalus Shinji 1929 Akkaiopsis boschophaga Zhang, Chen, Zhong & Li , in Zhang 1999 = Tuberocephalus sasakii (Matsumura 1917)

A specimen from IOZ­CAS collection labelled as Akkaiopsis boschophaga , which was described from Qinghai, China, on “a shrub of family Ericaceae ” appears to be an apterous exule of Tuberocephalus sasakii , which host­alternates between Prunus and Artemisia in eastern Asia.