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Genus Uroleucon

Red Goldenrod Aphid for West Virginia - Uroleucon

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 Uroleucon

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Formerly Dactynotus

Numbers

Nearctica lists 93 species. At least 4 are non-native.

Food

Most feed on plants in the aster family (Asteraceae). There are 22 species known to feed on goldenrod (Solidago), according to a comment by John Graham.

Print References

Moran, Nancy. 1984 "The Genus Uroleucon (Homoptera: Aphididae) in Michigan: Key, Host Records, Biological Notes, and Descriptions of Three New Species." Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 57(4):596-616.

Internet References

Influential Points

Journal of Kansas Entomological Society

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 19 May, 2007 - 8:45pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman
Last updated 20 October, 2014 - 4:36pm

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