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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Aphidoidea » Aphids (Aphididae) » Woolly Aphids and Gall-making Aphids (Eriosomatinae) » Paraprociphilus » Woolly Alder Aphid (Paraprociphilus tessellatus)
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Aphids - Paraprociphilus tessellatus
Copyright © 2008 Benoit Guenard

Aphids - Paraprociphilus tessellatus
Cary, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
April 17, 2008
Size: 2mm
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Contributed by Benoit Guenard on 19 April, 2008 - 6:53am
Last updated 31 October, 2009 - 1:05am

Moved
Moved from unidentified woolly aphids.
… Charley Eiseman, 31 October, 2009 - 1:05am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Woolly Aphids.
… Charley Eiseman, 17 November, 2008 - 5:05pm login or register to post comments

Mealy Bugs
I think. Compare with these.
… Lynette Schimming, 19 April, 2008 - 9:54am login or register to post comments

 
Or maybe...
Ensign Coccids, Family Ortheziidae:


Not that we can rule out Wooly Aphids, Family Aphididae, Genus Eriosoma:
… Chuck Entz, 19 April, 2008 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Oh yeah,
I'd forgotten about the wooly aphids.
… Lynette Schimming, 19 April, 2008 - 10:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Eriosoma
I think knowing the plant species is the only way we're going to get a more specific ID. Is that an alder or an apple or...?
… Charley Eiseman, 23 May, 2008 - 10:50pm login or register to post comments

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