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Aphis (Aphis) fabae Scopoli 1763
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Description
Aphis (Aphis) fabae Scopoli, 1763
Fig. 26
Diagnosis
Aptera 1.5–3 mm, dull black; legs and antennae partly white; abdomen sometimes with white wax markings; usually ant-attended. Polyphagous species (or group of species). Holocyclic and dioecious, primary hosts are Euonymus (Celastraceae), Philadelphus (Hydrangeaceae) and Viburnum (Adoxaceae). Numerous plants, mostly herbs, serve as secondary hosts. Only occasionally on conifers. Often attended by ants, but none recorded from conifers.
Recorded coniferous hosts
Pinaceae: Picea sitchensis; Larix decidua, kaempferi; Tsuga heterophylla; Pinus contorta.
Distribution
D S N F I.
A13 (A12 A14) Siphunculi present as pores not raised from body surface ........ Mindarus Koch, 1857
Notes
Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Scopoli
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Aphididae
- Genus
- Aphis
- Species
- fabae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aphis (Aphis) fabae Scopoli, 1763 sec. Albrecht, 2017