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Aphid Species File
Genus

Pterocomma Buckton, 1879

Type

type species by original monotypy of Pterocomma Buckton, 1879

Nomenclature (216)

  • Salicifex Amyot, 1847: 480.

    type species by original monotypy Aphis salicis Linnaeus, 1758

  • Salicifex Amyot, 1847 (subjective synonym of Pterocomma Buckton, 1879)
  • Cladobius (unavailable or invalid, linked to Pterocomma Buckton, 1879)
  • Aristaphis (unavailable or invalid, linked to Aphioides Passerini, 1860)

Nomenclature references (83)

  • Amyot, C.J.-B. (1847) Entomologie française. Rhynchotes (Suite) (1). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 5, 453–506.
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  • Walker, F. (1858) List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Vol. Supplement. Edward Newman, London, 307 pp.
  • Passerini, G. (1860) Gli afidi con un prospetto dei generi ed alcune specie nuove Italiane. Tipografia Carmignani, Parma, Italy, 40 pp.
  • Passerini, G. (1863) Aphididae Italicae hucusque observatae. Archivio per la Zoologia, 2(2), 129–212.
  • Walker, F. (1868) Notes on Aphides. The Zoologist, 3(January), 1048–1053.
  • Walker, F. (1868) Notes on Aphides. The Zoologist, 3(July), 1296–1301.
  • Thomas, C. (1877) Notes of the plant-lice found in the United States. Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, 10(1876), 137–212.
  • Buckton, G.B. (1879) Monograph of British Aphides. The Ray Society, London, Vol. 2, 176 pp. [in English] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9918995
  • Macchiati, L. (1884) Fauna e flora dagli afidi di Calabria. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 15(4), 254–287.
  • Lichtenstein, J. (1886) Monographie des Pucerons du Peuplier. Hamelin Frères, Montpellier, France, 42 pp.
  • Oestlund, O.W. (1887) Synopsis of the Aphididae of Minnesota. Bulletin of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, 4, 100 pp.
  • Ashmead, W.H. (1889) A generic synopsis of the Aphididae. Entomologica Americana, 5(10-11), 185–189.
  • Cholodkovsky, N.A. (1898) Explanatory Catalog of the Aphid Collection (Aphidae). Zoological Cabinet of St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, 24 pp.
  • Del Guercio, G. (1900) Prospetto dell'afidofauna italica. Nuove Relazioni Intorno ai Lavori della Regia Stazione di Entomologia Agraria di Firenze. Serie Prima, 2, 1–236. [in Italian]
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  • Schouteden, H. (1901) Le genre Siphonophora C. Koch. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 45, 111–117.
  • Sanborn, C.E. (1904) Kansas Aphididae, with catalogue of North American Aphididae, and with host-plant list. The Kansas University Science Bulletin, 3(1), 1–82.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1905) Catalogue of the genera of the hemipterous family Aphidae, with their typical species, together with a list of the species described as new from 1865 to 1905. The Canadian Entomologist, 37(12), 414–420. [in English] https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent37414-12
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1906) Catalogue of the genera of the hemipterous family Aphidae, with their typical species, together with a list of the species described as new from 1885 to 1905. The Canadian Entomologist, 38(1), 9–18. [in English] https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent389-1
  • Sanborn, C.E. (1906) Kansas Aphididae, with catalogue of North American Aphididae, and with host-plant list, part II. The Kansas University Science Bulletin, 3(8), 225–275.
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  • Mordvilko, A.K. (1909) Tableaux pour servir à la détermination des groupes et des genres des Aphididae Passerini. Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS, 13, 353–384. [1908]
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  • van der Goot, P. (1915) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Holländischen Blattläuse. Eine Morphologisch-Systematische Studie. H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, Haarlem, Netherlands, 600 pp.
  • Wilson, H.F. (1916) Additional notes on the genus Pterocomma. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 9(1), 103. [in English] https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/9.1.103
  • Matsumura, S. (1917) A list of the Aphididae of Japan, with description of new species and genera. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University, 7, 351–414.
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  • van der Goot, P. (1919) Keys to the genera and tribes of Aphididae. University of California Publications in Entomology, 3, 154–158. [in English]
  • Baker, A.C. (1920) Generic classification of the hemipterous family Aphididae. Bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture, 826, 93 pp. [in English]
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  • Börner, C.J.B. & Schilder, F.A. (1931) Aphidoidea, Blattläuse. In L. Reh (Ed.). Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten Begründet von Paul Sorauer: Vol. Volume 5. Paul Parey, Berlin. Issue 2, pp. 551–715. [1932; in German]
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  • Knowlton, G.F. & Smith, C.F. (1936) Notes on intermountain aphids. Entomological News, 47(8), 210–213.
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  • Börner, C.J.B. (1940) Neue Blattläuse aus Mitteleuropa. Self-published, Naumberg (Saale), 4 pp. [in German]
  • Shinji, O. (1941) Monograph of Japanese Aphididae. Shinkyo Sha Shoin, Tokyo, 1215 pp. [in Japanese]
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  • Börner, C. (1952) Europae centralis Aphides. Die Blattläuse Mitteleuropas. Namen, Synonyme, Wirtspflanzen, Generationszyklen. In Mitteilungen der Thüringischen Botanischen Gesellschaft: Vol. supplement 3. . . Issue 1, 1–259 pp. [in German]
  • Palmer, M.A. (1952) Aphids of the Rocky Mountain Region. The Thomas Say Foundation, 5, 452 pp. [in English] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/62388146
  • Börner, C.J.B. & Heinze, K. (1957) Aphidina - Aphidoidea Blattläuse, plantlice (aphids), pucerons (aphides). In L. Reh (Ed.). Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten von Prof. Dr. Paul Sorauer. Paul Parey, Berlin. Vol. 5, Issue 4, 402 pp. [in German]
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  • Tao, C.C. (1964) Aphid fauna of China. Science Yearbook of the Taiwan Museum, 7, 104–147. [in Chinese]
  • Szelegiewicz, H. (1965) Studies on the tribe Pterocommatini Mordv. (Homoptera, Aphididae). Part I. Phylogeny and generic classification. Annales Zoologici, 23(10), 251–301.
  • Richards, W.R. (1966) A review of Plocamaphis Oestlund with descriptions of three new species (Homoptera: Aphididae). The Canadian Entomologist, 98(8), 835–851.
  • Richards, W.R. (1967) The Pterocomma of Canada and Greenland with notes on the phyletic position of the Pterocommatini (Homoptera: Aphididae). The Canadian Entomologist, 99(10), 1015–1040.
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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus101819
Species440104148
Subspecies701825