Genus Uroleucon

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Food · Print References

Brown Ambrosia Aphid - Uroleucon ambrosiae

Aphid Giving Birth - Uroleucon sonchellum

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)

Superfamily Aphidoidea

Family Aphididae (Aphids)

Subfamily Aphidinae

Genus Uroleucon

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Formerly Dactynotus

Numbers

Nearctica lists 93 species.

Food

Most feed on plants in the aster family (Asteraceae). There are 22 species known to feed on goldenrod (Solidago), according to a comment by John Graham.

Print References

Moran, Nancy. 1984 "The Genus Uroleucon (Homoptera: Aphididae) in Michigan: Key, Host Records, Biological Notes, and Descriptions of Three New Species." Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 57(4):596-616.

Contributed by J.D. Roberts on 19 May, 2007 - 8:45pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman
Last updated 13 October, 2009 - 11:26pm

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