@article{b552ad6788fb4b7194fa54a5c6f5f9fa,
title = "Dermaphis coccidiformis sp. nov. (Hemiptera), an aphid species with asymmetrically sclerotized apterae and “winter alates”",
abstract = "Dermaphis coccidiformis sp. nov. (Hormaphidinae: Nipponaphidini) is described from Japan. Apterous adults of the species were found between winter buds (or between a winter bud and a leaf petiole) of the evergreen oaks Quercus glauca, Q. myrsinifolia and Q. salicina. Their morphology is peculiar in that their tergites are heavily sclerotized only in the part that seems to have been exposed to sunlight. The new species is also peculiar in that nymphs to be alates (sexuparae) were found on the upper surfaces of leaves of the host oak only during winter, from December to March or early April, before the bud break of the oak. Our molecular phylogenetic analysis indicated that the new species is closely related to Dermaphis spp., therefore it was placed in the genus. The analysis incidentally indicated that “Dinipponaphis” autumna, a monoecious species forming galls on Distylium racemosum, was included in the clade of the genus Dermaphis, and therefore it was transferred to this genus.",
keywords = "Dinipponaphis autumna, life cycle, molecular phylogeny, Nipponaphidini, Quercus",
author = "Shigeyuki Aoki and Utako Kurosu and Keigo Uematsu and Takema Fukatsu and Mayako Kutsukake",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the following persons for their help in collecting materials: Kazuo Koyanagi, Hiroshi Kubota, Koreyoshi Ogata, Shunichiro Sugimoto and Junichi Yukawa. We note here that the photographer Yusei Hara had already presented excellent photographs of the alate generation of Dermaphis coccidiformis on his website (https://baba-insects.blogspot.jp/2012/03/ nipponaphis.html). This study was in part supported by Chuo University Leave Program for Special Research Projects (to U. Kurosu in fiscal year 2015). K. Uematsu was supported by a Research Fellowship of JSPS for Young Scientists. Funding Information: We thank the following persons for their help in collecting materials: Kazuo Koyanagi, Hiroshi Kubota, Koreyoshi Ogata, Shunichiro Sugimoto and Junichi Yukawa. We note here that the photographer Yusei Hara had already presented excellent photographs of the alate generation of Dermaphis coccidiformis on his website (https://baba-insects.blogspot.jp/2012/03/nipponaphis.html). This study was in part supported by Chuo University Leave Program for Special Research Projects (to U. Kurosu in fiscal year 2015). K. Uematsu was supported by a Research Fellowship of JSPS for Young Scientists. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 The Authors Entomological Science published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Entomological Society of Japan",
year = "2018",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1111/ens.12290",
language = "English",
volume = "21",
pages = "142--153",
journal = "Entomological Science",
issn = "1343-8786",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}