taxonID	type	description	language	source
270F6161073D6EC0257DDAAE9A853F30.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Named after its host plant, from which it was collected: Platycerium coronarium (Konig) Desv.	en	Mroz, Ewa, Depa, Lukasz, Artchawakom, Taksin, Gorczyca, Jacek (2014): Micromyzusplatycerii sp. n. (Hemiptera, Aphididae) - a new fern-feeding aphid species from Thailand. ZooKeys 456: 49-57, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.456.8598, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.456.8598
270F6161073D6EC0257DDAAE9A853F30.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The species belongs to the genus Micromyzus, because its alate female has dark-bordered wing veins and strongly curved radial sector. The new species differs from other representatives of the genus Micromyzus (including Micromyzus katoi sensu Eastop 1966) by: longer siphunculi: 2.57 - 3.08 of cauda vs. less than 2.4 in Micromyzus katoi, Micromyzus vandergooti different ratio of VIa / VIb: apterae 3.87 - 4.29 (but alatae: 4.54 - 4.75) vs. 4.4 - 6.0 in Micromyzus katoi; higher ratio of siphunculus length / diameter of siphunculus in the middle: apterae: 8.17 - 8.98, alatae 7.04 - 8.86 vs. 5 - 8 in Micromyzus katoi sensu Eastop, 1966; lack of dorsal sclerotisation vs. dorsal sclerotic crossbars in Micromyzus diervillae, Micromyzus mawphlangensis; pale cauda vs. dark cauda in Micromyzus niger; pale tibiae vs. dark tibiae in Micromyzus osmundae, Micromyzus nikkoensis; higher number of accessory hairs on ultimate rostral segment than in Micromyzus pojanii; lower number of secondary rhinaria on antennal segment III than in Micromyzus hangzhouensis. The following key may be applied, which is a modification of the last part of the key to apterae on Polypodium and other fern-feeding aphids from Blackman and Eastop (2006). Using their key, Micromyzus platycerii will run to couplet 52, where the siph. / cauda ratio is discriminatory:	en	Mroz, Ewa, Depa, Lukasz, Artchawakom, Taksin, Gorczyca, Jacek (2014): Micromyzusplatycerii sp. n. (Hemiptera, Aphididae) - a new fern-feeding aphid species from Thailand. ZooKeys 456: 49-57, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.456.8598, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.456.8598
