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Rhopalosiphum (Koch, 1854) is a genus of aphid of the family Aphididae that includes 16 species worldwide.[1] In addition to direct behavior as pests on host plants, some species are vectors for viral pathogens.[2]
Species include:[3]
- Rhopalosiphum arundinariae (A. N. Tissot, 1933)
- Rhopalosiphum cerasifoliae (Fitch, 1855)
- Rhopalosiphum enigmae (F. C. Hottes and T. H. Frison, 1931)
- Rhopalosiphum inserta (Walker, 1849)
- Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch, 1856) -- corn leaf aphid
- Rhopalosiphum musae (H. Schouteden, 1906)
- Rhopalosiphum nigrum (Richards, 1960)
- Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (Linnaeus, 1761) -- water lily aphid, plum aphid
- Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus, 1758) -- bird cherry-oat aphid
- Rhopalosiphum padiformis (Richards, 1962)
- Rhopalosiphum parvae (Hottes and Frison, 1931)
- Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominalis (Sasaki, 1899) -- rice root aphid
- Rhopalosiphum rufulum (Richards, 1960)
[edit] References
- ^ Heie, O. E. (1997). The Aphidoidea (Hemiptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark: Family Aphididae - Subfamily Pterocommatinae and Tribe Aphidini of Subfamily Aphidinae (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 314. ISBN 978-9004080881.
- ^ 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): 311-320. Lanham, Maryland: Entomological Society of America.
- ^ Nomina Insecta Nearctica (1998). Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
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