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Discovering Uncharted Territories: Adding Two New Records to Aphid Fauna of Pakistan, Unveiled in the Pine Plantations of District Battagram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province

Discovering Uncharted Territories: Adding Two New Records to Aphid Fauna of Pakistan, Unveiled in the Pine Plantations of District Battagram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province

Bakht Zada1, Ahmed Zia2, Sardar Azhar Mehmood1, Abdur Rehman3*, Toheed Iqbal4*, Kiran Shahjeer5 and Shabir Ahmed1

1Department of Zoology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Dudhial, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; 2National Insect Museum, National Agriculture Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan; 3College of Plant Protection and Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; 4Department of Entomology, Faculty of Crop Protection Sciences, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; 5Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

 
*Correspondence | Abdur Rehman and Toheed Iqbal, College of Plant Protection and Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; Department of Entomology, Faculty of Crop Protection Sciences, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Figure 1:

Map showing surveyed sites for aphids collection in district Battagram. All four directions sign should be added in the figure. You just mentioned only North direction.

Figure 2:

Dorsal view of Cinara atrotibialis.

Figure 3:

Taxonomic characters of apterous viviparous female of Cinara atrotibialis (A) Antennal tubercles and antennae (B) Siphinculi (C) Cauda.

Figure 4:

Pine tree (Pinus wallichiana).

Figure 5:

Dorsal view of Cinara atlantica.

Figure 6:

Taxonomic characters of an apterous viviparous female of Cinara atlantica (A) Antennae (B) Siphinculi (C) Cauda.

Figure 7:

Pine tree (Pinus roxburgii).

Pakistan Journal of Zoology

October

Pakistan J. Zool., Vol. 56, Iss. 5, pp. 2001-2500

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