Species Sitobion miscanthi (Takahashi, 1921)

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Species Sitobion miscanthi (Takahashi, 1921)

Macrosiphum miscanthi Takahashi, R. 1921. Aphididae of Formosa. Part 1. Agricultural Experimental Station of the Government of Formosa. Report 20: 1-97 [8].
Type data:
Holotype apt. vivip. female (in original description), Taiwan.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Also Pacific.

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

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- Victoria
New Zealand

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Polygonum hydropiper Linnaeus, 1753 [POLYGONACEAE] Water Pepper; Capsella bursa-pastoris Linnaeus [BRASSICACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Mainly on Poaceae but also on Polygonum hydropiper and Capsella bursa-pastoris in Australia.

General References

Eastop, V.F. 1966. A taxonomic study of Australian Aphidoidea (Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 399-592 [459] (as Macrosiphum (S.) miscanthi)

Hales, D., Foottit, R.G. & Maw, E. 2010. Morphometric studies of the genus Sitobion Mordvilko 1914 in Australia (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Australian Journal of Entomology 49(4): 341-353

Hales, D.F., Chapman, R.L., Lardner, R.M., Cowen, R. & Turak, E. 1990. Aphids of the genus Sitobion occurring on grasses in Southern Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 29: 19-25 [19-25]

Remaudière, G. & Remaudière, M. 1997. Catalogue des Aphididae du monde. Paris : INRA 473 + [3] pp. [146] (list one species-group synonym)

Sunnucks, P., England, P.R., Taylor, A.C. & Hales, D.F. 1996. Microsatellite and chromosome evolution of parthenogenetic Sitobion Aphids in Australia. Genetics 144: 747-756 [747-756]

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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