On a collection of aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) from Himachal Pradesh, India

Updated Checklist of Food Plants of Macrosiphini (Aphididae: Hemiptera) in India – 1

“…Resreratrol (Polygonaceae) [20]  Polygonum sp. (Polygonaceae) [17,32,55,78,106,108]  Rumex nepalensis Spreng. (Polygonaceae) [19,20,136]  Rumex sp.…”

“…Koch (Apiaceae) [14]  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. (Solanaceae) [17,19,70,78 [19,20,78,136]  Cnicus wallichii Hook.f. (Asteraceae) [137]  Cousinia thomsoni Clarke (=Cnicus thomsoni auct.…”

“…(Asteraceae) [19,35,36]  Artemisia nepalensis Nees (Asteraceae) [106,139]  Artemisia roxburghiana Bess (Asteraceae) [21]  Artemisia sp. (Asteraceae) [17,19,20,70,78,136 …”

First record of the aphid genus Jacksonia Theobald (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Aphidinae) from China, with description of one new species

“…Jacksonia Theobald: Eastop and Hille Ris Lambers 1976: 229; Miyazaki 1971: 112; Raychaudhuri 1980: 154; Ghosh 1986: 92; Heie 1994: 43; Remaudière and Remaudière 1997: 105; Blackman and Eastop 2006: 1183. …”

“…It was distinguished by the peculiar shape of the siphunculi, constricted at the middle, without a flange or any reticulation, and well-developed antennal tubercles which are converging, rough and very broad. Until now, this genus is represented by only three known species in the world (Ghosh 1986; Heie 1994; Raychaudhuri 1980; Remaudière and Remaudière 1997; Favret 2013). After identifying the specimens from Shaanxi, China, and comparing the original descriptions of the known species, one new species of Jacksonia is reported from China, Jacksonia gibbera Qiao, Li, Zhang & Su, sp.…”