Aphidura mingens Pintera 1970

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

Aphidura mingens Pintera 1970 = Aphidura picta Hille Ris Lambers 1956

Aphidura picta was described from a single specimen from cultivated Dianthus in Israel, which seems untypical of the species as a whole. Specimens in the BMNH collection subsequently collected from Dianthus in former Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey, and from Silene conoidea in Iran, have a relatively longer antennal processus terminalis and a longer, more hairy last rostral segment than the type of picta , and are not clearly distinguishable from paratypes of A. mingens Pintera , described from S. thymifolia on the Black Sea coast, and also found on S. fruticosa in Sicily ( Barbagallo & Stroyan 1982).