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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) » Pemphigini » Grylloprociphilus » Beech Blight Aphid (Grylloprociphilus imbricator)

Species Grylloprociphilus imbricator - Beech Blight Aphid

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Food · Remarks · Internet References
Woolly Aphids, on beech - Grylloprociphilus imbricator Woolly Aphids, on beech - Grylloprociphilus imbricator White fuzzy tree branch bugs - Grylloprociphilus imbricator White fuzzy tree branch bugs - Grylloprociphilus imbricator White fuzzy tree branch bugs - Grylloprociphilus imbricator Psyllid nymphs? on beech - Grylloprociphilus imbricator Middletown NJ. Oct 9 2010. Tree Branch in back of house. Small runoff creek below about 2 meters from branch Image 1 - Grylloprociphilus imbricator Seeking each other's companionship - Grylloprociphilus imbricator
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 Eriosomatinae (Woolly Aphids and Gall-making Aphids)
Tribe Pemphigini
Genus Grylloprociphilus
Species imbricator (Beech Blight Aphid)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Grylloprociphilus imbricator (Fitch)
Identification
They form large colonies of individuals covered with wax coating and wax feathered secretions. Fourth instar nymphs are slender, long legged and active.
Food
Beech
Remarks
They, especially the fourth instar nymphs, fight predators by stinging them.
Internet References
www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/fe84p431.pdf. Florida entomologist. PDF document
University of Massachusetts
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 17 November, 2008 - 4:39pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 10 August, 2011 - 10:50am

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