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Species Therioaphis riehmi - Sweet Clover Aphid

Therioaphis riehmi Therioaphis riehmi Therioaphis riehmi
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 Panaphidini
Subtribe Panaphidina
Genus Therioaphis
No Taxon (Subgenus Rhizoberlesia)
Species riehmi (Sweet Clover Aphid)
Explanation of Names
Author: Boerner
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA (introduced ca. 1948)(1)
Food
Clovers, Melilotus, Trifolium
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.