Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 1 73 APHIS CALLUNAETHEO^XLY), 1915-PROPOSED CONSERVATION UNDER THE PLENARY POWERS (INSECTA, APHIDOIDEA). Z.N.(S )2283 By H.L.G Stroyan {Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Plant Pathology Laboratory, Harpenden, Herts. ) K Francis Walker (1852, List of the Specimens of Homop-terous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, volTp 1039) described a new aphid species Aphis betulina from England rT/i/i/H ^' ^''%*°. '' '"^S^^^^^ ^" association with birch {Betula). He enumerated no specimens, and described only the wmged viviparous female morph. ^ v.iiH ^" ^^f^'^ ^e^«//«fl Walker has at no time been used as the valid name of a taxon m primary hterature from 1852 until the present day, and no author has claimed to recognize it 3. John Doncaster (1961,Fra«cw Walker's Aphids d 36) ^'1 5 a"^'"^^ description o^ Aphis betulina and regarded it as a nomen dubium stating that no material whereby the species migh? be recognized had been found in any of the collections of Wa ker matenal then known. These known collections were listed in another part of the same work {ibid., p. 4). 9An a' u"^-T^^^obald (1915, Entomologist, vol. 48, pp. 260-261) descnbed a new aphid species Aphis calhmae from Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull m the New Forest, England Type material is TonJon" '°"''''°" °' '^' ^"'^^^ ^"'^""^ (Na'turai^ASory)! .nhJH J;. • ;^^^^^/t^^"«f^ Theobald is well known to European n?^ K !f 'f n"^ •^'' ''""" ^^^^"^^^d ^'^ referred to under this name by the followmg authors during the last 50 years-(1) Hille Ris Lambers, D., 1934. Notes on Theobald's The Plant-hce or Aphididae of Great Britain'. Stylops, vol. 3 p. 28. ' (2) Jacob, F.H. 1948. An account of a 'Black Aphid', v5 n" ! ^^'^^' ^'''''-^ ^''^-^'''^-^^''^-^^^ (3) Fidler 'j.H., 195l'. Aphis vaccinn (Bomer) new to the British Isles. A redescription and comparison with Aphis callunae Theobald. Proc. R. Ent. Soc. Lond. (B) vol. 20, (4) Bomer, C, 1952. Europae centralis Aphides. Mitt thunng bot. Ges. Beiheft 3,1. Lieferung, p. 84. Bull. zool. Nomencl vol. 37, part 3, September 1980
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