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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Aphidoidea » Aphids (Aphididae) » Aphidinae » Macrosiphini » Uroleucon » Subgenus Uroleucon (Uroleucon Subgenus Uroleucon) » Uroleucon obscuricaudatum
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Aphids on Asteraceae - Uroleucon obscuricaudatum - female
Copyright © 2008 Beatriz Moisset

Aphids on Asteraceae - Uroleucon obscuricaudatum - Female
Pennypack Restoration Trust, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 23, 2006
Identified by Penn State Cooperative Extension of Montgomery County, PA
Southeastern PA.

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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 2 January, 2008 - 1:50pm
Last updated 24 May, 2021 - 4:19pm

Moved
Moved from Brown Ambrosia Aphid.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 April, 2010 - 8:32pm login or register to post comments

 
So...
I guess that you can't trust some agricultural extension offices. I had the impression that they didn't care much about a precise ID.
I will start looking for aphids on rag weed from now on.
Thanks to both of you.
… Beatriz Moisset, 30 April, 2010 - 8:36pm login or register to post comments

Plant host...
...looks to be Oxeye (Heliopsis helianthoides) in Asteraceae.
… John Pearson, 30 April, 2010 - 8:21pm login or register to post comments

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