Aspidophorodon Aspidophorodon Verma, 1967

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 Aspidophorodon Verma, 1967

Aspidophorodon Verma 1967: 507. Type species: Aspidophorodon harvense Verma 1967; by original designation.

Aspidophorodon (Aspidophorodon) Verma: Remaudière and Remaudière 1997: 73; Stekolshchikov and Novgorodova 2010: 44; Nieto Nafría et al. 2011: 145; Chen et al. 2015: 557.

Comments.

Spinal processes on body dorsum absent, and marginal processes present or absent on thoracic nota and abdominal tergites I-IV in apterae. Median frontal tubercle protuberant, hemispherical, rectangular, sometimes with a depression at the middle in apterae. Antennae 4- or 5-segmented in apterae. Cauda tongue-shaped with 4 or 5 setae, sometimes with 6 setae.

The nominate subgenus contains seven species, including three new species. Aspidophorodon harvense Verma is first recorded in China. This subgenus is mainly distributed in eastern Asia.