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Species Myzus lythri

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 Myzus

Species lythri (Myzus lythri)

Explanation of Names

Myzus (Myzus) lythri (Schrank 1801)

Range

native to Europe, adventive in NA(1); now throughout much of NA (Voegtlin 2011)

Food

host: purple loosestrife; alternate host: mahaleb cherry (Voegtlin 2011)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: DC 1916(1)

Internet References

Fact sheet (Voegtlin 2011)

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 Claude Pilon on 3 May, 2012 - 2:24pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 23 May, 2013 - 6:32pm

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