''Rhopalosiphum'' is a genus of
aphid
Aphids are small sap-sucking insects in the Taxonomic rank, family Aphididae. Common names include greenfly and blackfly, although individuals within a species can vary widely in color. The group includes the fluffy white Eriosomatinae, woolly ...
of the family
Aphididae
The Aphididae are a very large insect family in the aphid superfamily ( Aphidoidea), of the order Hemiptera. These insects suck the sap from plant leaves. Several thousand species are placed in this family, many of which are considered plant/cr ...
that includes 17 species worldwide. Apart from sucking the phloem of host plants and thereby being treated in agriculture as
pests
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, some species are
vectors for
viral plant pathogens.
Selected species
Species include:
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Rhopalosiphum cerasifoliae''
( Fitch, 1855)
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Rhopalosiphum chusqueae''
Pérez Hidalgo & Villalobos Muller, 2012
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Rhopalosiphum enigmae''
F. C. Hottes and T. H. Frison, 1931
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Rhopalosiphum maidis
''Rhopalosiphum maidis'', common names corn leaf aphid and corn aphid, is an insect, and a pest of maize and other crops. It has a nearly worldwide distribution and is typically found in agricultural fields, grasslands, and forest-grassland zone ...
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( Fitch, 1856) - corn leaf aphid
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Rhopalosiphum musae''
( Schouteden, 1906)
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Rhopalosiphum nigrum''
Richards, 1960
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Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1761) - water lily or plum aphid
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Rhopalosiphum oxyacanthae''
(Schrank, 1801) - apple-grass aphid
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Rhopalosiphum padi
Bird cherry-oat aphid (''Rhopalosiphum padi'') is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants. It is considered a major pest in cereal crops, especially in temperate regions, as well ...
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(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
) - bird cherry-oat aphid
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Rhopalosiphum padiformis''
Richards, 1962
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Rhopalosiphum parvae''
Hottes and Frison, 1931
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Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale
''Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale'', the rice root aphid or red rice root aphid, is a sap-sucking insect pest with a wide host range and a global distribution. As a member of the superfamily Aphidoidea, it is one of 16 species of the genus ''Rhopalo ...
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(Sasaki, 1899) - rice root aphid
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Rhopalosiphum rufulum''
Richards, 1960
References
External links
Bird Cherry-Oat Aphid, Kansas State University, July 2008
Aphidini
Sternorrhyncha genera
Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch
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