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: toheed.iqbal@aup.edu.pk, rehman.ento@aup.edu.pk
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).