Yamatochaitophorus Higuchi, 1972

Jiang, Li-Yun, Chen, Jing & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2016, Yamatochaitophorusyichunensis, a new species of aphid (Aphididae: Chaitophorinae) from northeast China, ZooKeys 612, pp. 41-49 : 42-43

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Aphididae

Yamatochaitophorus Higuchi, 1972

Yamatochaitophorus Higuchi: Chakrabarti and Mandal 1986: 334; Remaudière and Remaudière 1997: 168; Blackman and Eastop 1994: 925.

Type-species.

Trichaitophorus albus Takahashi, 1961; by original designation.

Generic diagnosis.

Apterae: Head fused with pronotum. Eyes with approx. 25 facets or less. Antenna 5-segmented, occasionally 6-segmented, shorter than body. Antennal segments without secondary rhinaria. Ultimate rostral segment with 0-2 accessory setae. Dorsal body covered with O- or C-like tubercles, and dorsal setae of body long, thick, flattened with knobbed or blunt apices; ventral body with spinulose stripes. First tarsal segments with three setae. Abdominal tergites I-VII solidly fused, each with paired spinal and marginal setae. Siphunculi short, truncate, without reticulations. Cauda rounded, anal plate broadly rounded, genital plate transverse elliptical. In alatae ( Chakrabarti and Mandal 1986): antenna 6-segmented, segment III with moderately protuberant rhinaria. Dorsal setae long and acute. Siphunculi with reticulation.