Published October 21, 2015
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Geoica utricularia
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Description
Geoica utricularia (Passerini, 1856)
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DiagnosisApterae 1.2–2.2 mm, cream to light brown, dusted with white wax. Legs and antennae short and stout, tarsi two-segmented. Body with numerous brown spatulate hairs. Dioecious, alternating between leaf
Fig.galls on pistachio Pistacia (Anacardiaceae) and grasses (Poaceae). In Northern Europe anholocyclic on grass roots (Poaceae). I have observed a few individuals feeding on Polytrichum commune * (Polytrichaceae) in a Lasius flavus nest mound during extreme drought when the grasses had dried out. Always accompanied by Lasius ants.
DistributionD F S.
Recorded moss hostPolytrichaceae Polytrichum commune (occasionally).
Notes
Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2015, Identification guide to Nordic aphids associated with mosses, horsetails and ferns (Bryophyta, Equisetophyta, Polypodiophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Aphidoidea), pp. 1-55 in European Journal of Taxonomy 145 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.145, http://zenodo.org/record/3787410
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Aphididae
- Genus
- Geoica
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Aphidomorpha
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Passerini
- Species
- utricularia
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Geoica utricularia (Passerini, 1856) sec. Albrecht, 2015