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ALPINE ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages 147-151Publisher
PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3897/alpento.6.97595
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Sternorrhyncha; Triozidae; systematics; phytophagy; Central Switzerland; Prealps
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Eryngiofaga perrara sp. nov., a new species found on Mount Pilatus in Switzerland, is described and illustrated. It is morphologically similar to E. matura from Mongolia, but differs in genal processes and terminalia. Eryngiofaga consists of 13 known species, with five occurring in Central and Western Europe. This is the first record of the genus in Switzerland or the Alps.
Eryngiofaga perrara sp. nov. is described, diagnosed and illustrated from two adult specimens found on Mount Pilatus (Switzerland, Obwalden). The new species is morphologically most similar to E. matura (Loginova, 1972), a species from Mongolia, from which it differs in the light genal processes and in details of the terminalia. Eryngiofaga consists of 13 previously described species of which five occur in Central and Western Europe. Up to now, the genus was not known from Switzerland or the Alps. The host plant of E. perrara remains unknown, but Bupleurum ranunculoides L. (Apiaceae) is a likely candidate.
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