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Species Brachycaudus cardui - Thistle Aphid

Fat tan and black aphids on tansy - Brachycaudus cardui

Brachycaudus cardui?? - Brachycaudus cardui

Formica montana tending Brachycaudus cardui on Cirsium vulgare - Brachycaudus cardui

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

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

Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)

Superfamily Aphidoidea

Family Aphididae (Aphids)

Subfamily Aphidinae

Tribe Macrosiphini

Genus Brachycaudus

Species cardui (Thistle Aphid)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Aphis cardui Linnaeus, 1758

Food

Some fruit trees and thistles.

Remarks

Introduced from Europe 1887

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 4 December, 2009 - 5:31pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 13 January, 2011 - 9:40pm

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