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Species Euceraphis punctipennis - European Birch Aphid

Euceraphis betulae - Euceraphis punctipennis - female

Pennsylvania Aphid - Euceraphis punctipennis

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 Calaphidinae

Tribe Calaphidini

Subtribe Calaphidina

Genus Euceraphis

Species punctipennis (European Birch Aphid)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Euceraphis betulae

Range

native to Europe, adventive in NA (introduced ca. 1847)(1)

Food

on birch (Betula)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Adventive aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) of America north of Mexico Foottit R.G., Halbert S.E., Miller G.L., Maw E., Russell L.M. 2006. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 108: 583-610.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 21 December, 2010 - 9:12am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 14 January, 2011 - 8:58am

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