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Species Cinara pilicornis - Spruce Shoot Giant-aphid

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 Lachninae (Giant Aphids)

Tribe Eulachnini

Genus Cinara (Giant Conifer Aphids)

No Taxon (Subgenus Cinara)

Species pilicornis (Spruce Shoot Giant-aphid)

Explanation of Names

Author: Hartig

Size

BL 2.1-4.7 mm.

Identification

Apterae are either orange-brown or greyish-green

Food

Picea spp, also Tsuga heterophylla

Remarks

Introduced from the Palearctic, 1912

Internet References

Aphids on world plants

Cinara pilicornis - Spruce shoot aphid

Contributed by Claude Pilon on 10 January, 2011 - 12:57pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Joshua Stuart Rose
Last updated 17 November, 2020 - 9:47am

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