Rhopalosiphum

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Rhopalosiphum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Family: Aphididae
Subfamily: Aphidinae
Tribe: Aphidini
Genus: Rhopalosiphum
Koch, 1854

Rhopalosiphum is a genus of aphid of the family Aphididae that includes 17 species worldwide. [1] Apart from sucking the phloem of host plants and thereby being treated in agriculture as pests, some species are vectors for viral plant pathogens. [2]

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Selected species

Species include: [3]

References

  1. ↑ Aphid Species File
  2. ↑ Taber, S. W. (1994). "Labile behavioral evolution in a genus of agricultural pests: The Rhopalosiphum plant lice (Hemiptera: Aphididae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 87 (3). Lanham, Maryland: Entomological Society of America: 311–320. doi:10.1093/aesa/87.3.311.
  3. ↑ "Nomina Insecta Nearctica". 1998. Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
  4. ↑ Pérez-Hidalgo, Nicolás; Martínez-Torres, David; Collantes-Alegre, Jorge Mariano; Muller, William Villalobos; Nafría., Juan M. Nieto (2012). "A new species of Rhopalosiphum (Hemiptera, Aphididae) on Chusquea tomentosa (Poaceae, Bambusoideae) from Costa Rica". ZooKeys (166): 59–73. Bibcode:2012ZooK..166...59P. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.166.2387 . PMC   3272636 . PMID   22328859.
  5. ↑ "Species Rhopalosiphum oxyacanthae (Schrank, 1801): Aphid Species File".


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