Species Acyrthosiphon (Acyrthosiphon) malvae (Mosley, 1841)

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Species Acyrthosiphon (Acyrthosiphon) malvae (Mosley, 1841)

Pelargonium Aphid

Aphis malvae Mosley, O. 1841. Aphides. Gardeners' Chronicle (London) 1 [684].
Type data:
Status unknown, material not retained (not determined), unknown, almost certainly UK.
Aphis pelargonii Kaltenbach, J.H. 1843. Monographie der Familien der Pflanzenläuse (Phytophthires). Theil Die Blatt- und Erdläuse, (Aphidina et Hyponomeutes). Aachen : Roschütz'schen Buchhandlung (P.Fagot) Vol. 1 xliii 223 pp. [in German] [21].
Type data:
Status unknown, apt. and al. (original description) (all Kaltenbach material), not determined, probably Germany.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Hille Ris Lambers, D. 1947. Contributions to a Monograph of the Aphidae of Europe. III. Temminckia 7: 179-320 [234] (synonymy of pelargonii)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Tasmania
- Victoria
Hawaii
New Zealand

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Erodium moschatum L'Hér. ex Ait. [GERANIACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

On this species in Australia.

General References

Eastop, V.F. 1966. A taxonomic study of Australian Aphidoidea (Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 399-592 [424] (as A. pelargonii)

Eastop, V.F. 1971. Keys for the identification of Acyrthosiphon (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 26(1): 1-115 [52] (as A. pelargonii)

Remaudière, G. & Remaudière, M. 1997. Catalogue des Aphididae du monde. Paris : INRA 473 + [3] pp. [67] (list a further seven species-group synonyms)

Common Name References

Naumann, I. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Australian Insect Names. Common and Scientific Names for Insects and Allied Organisms of Economic and Environmental Importance. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications v 200 pp. [Date published 31/12/1993] [68] (Pelargonium Aphid)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type
07-Nov-2019	APHIDIDAE	07-Nov-2019	MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018	APHIDIDAE	04-Oct-2019	MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018	Aphidinae	07-Nov-2019	MODIFIED
29-Jun-2012		07-Nov-2019	MODIFIED
		07-Nov-2019	MODIFIED

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