Genus Sitobion Mordvilko, 1914
- Sitobion Mordvilko, A.K. 1914. Faune de la Russie et des pays limitrophes. Insectes Hémiptères (Insecta Hemiptera). I. Aphidoidea. Livre 1. Petrograd : Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. 236 + 9 pp. [in Russian] [65] [as Sitobium].
Type species:
Aphis avenae Fabricius, 1775 by original designation (Sitobion avenae mentioned in (Mordvilko, A.K., 1929) [86-90]; Aphis granaria Kirby, 1798 (= A. avenae Fabr.) listed as type sp. of Sitobium (by subs. desig.) in (Börner, C., 1930) [192], which probably refers to (Mordvilko, A.K., 1921) [43])).
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
IBRA
ACT, 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
Afrotropical Region
Australian Region
- Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- Victoria
- New Zealand
Nearctic Region
Neotropical Region
Oriental Region
Palaearctic Region
Note(s)
Sitobion sp. near fragariae (Walker, 1848)
Sitobion sp. near fragariae (Walker). 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.
Hostplants: Poaceae
Distribution: NSW, SA, TAS, VIC, WA.
References: 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; Blackman, R.L. & Eastop, V.F. 2000. Aphids on the World's Crops. An Identification and Information Guide. Chichester : Wiley x + 466 pp. [343].
General References
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
Hille Ris Lambers, D. 1939. Contributions to a monograph of the Aphididae of Europe II. Temminckia 4: 1-134 [5, 73, 108-120]
History of changes
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