Rhopalosiphum
| Rhopalosiphum | |
|---|---|
| |
| R. maidis | |
Scientific classification 
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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]
Selected species
[edit]Species include:[3]
- Rhopalosiphum cerasifoliae (Fitch, 1855)
- Rhopalosiphum chusqueae Pérez Hidalgo & Villalobos Muller, 2012[4]
- Rhopalosiphum enigmae F. C. Hottes and T. H. Frison, 1931
- Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch, 1856) - corn leaf aphid
- Rhopalosiphum musae (Schouteden, 1906)
- Rhopalosiphum nigrum Richards, 1960
- Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (Linnaeus, 1761) - water lily or plum aphid
- Rhopalosiphum oxyacanthae (Schrank, 1801) - apple-grass aphid[5]
- Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus, 1758) - bird cherry-oat aphid
- Rhopalosiphum padiformis Richards, 1962
- Rhopalosiphum parvae Hottes and Frison, 1931
- Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale (Sasaki, 1899) - rice root aphid
- Rhopalosiphum rufulum Richards, 1960
References
[edit]- ^ Aphid Species File
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Nomina Insecta Nearctica". 1998. Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
- ^ 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.166.2387. PMC 3272636. PMID 22328859.
- ^ [1]
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