Rhopalosiphum

<i>Rhopalosiphum</i>

Rhopalosiphum

Genus of true bugs

Rhopalosiphum is a genus of aphid of the family Aphididae that includes 16 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 pathogens.[2]

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Species

Species include:[3]

  • Rhopalosiphum arundinariae (A. N. Tissot, 1933)
  • Rhopalosiphum cerasifoliae (Fitch, 1855)
  • Rhopalosiphum chusqueae (Pérez Hidalgo & Villalobos Muller, 2012[4])
  • Rhopalosiphum enigmae (F. C. Hottes and T. H. Frison, 1931)
  • Rhopalosiphum insertum (Walker, 1849) - apple-grass aphid
  • 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 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

  1. [1]
    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. p. 314. ISBN 978-90-04-08088-1.
  2. [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. [3]
    "Nomina Insecta Nearctica". 1998. Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
  4. [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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.166.2387. PMC 3272636. PMID 22328859.


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