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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Aphidoidea » Aphids (Aphididae) » Aphidinae » Macrosiphini » Uroleucon » Subgenus Uroleucon (Uroleucon Subgenus Uroleucon) » Brown Ambrosia Aphid (Uroleucon ambrosiae)

Species Uroleucon ambrosiae - Brown Ambrosia Aphid

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Food · Internet References
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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
No Taxon (Subgenus Uroleucon)
Species ambrosiae (Brown Ambrosia Aphid)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Originally described as Siphonophora ambrosiae Thomas, 1878
Numerous species were formerly lumped under this name.
Identification
Adults are medium to large in size, broadly spindle shaped, red-brown to dark brown or dull red, and have black cornicles.
Food
". . . Most Uroleucon species are monophagous on particular host plants from the Asteraceae, and U. ambrosiae appears to specialize on the giant ragweed, Ambrosia trifida, in eastern North America. In the American Southwest, however, U. ambrosiae uses a variety of asteraceous taxa as hosts. " Ecological society Journal
Internet References
Species page at Aphid Species File
Denison University
Brown Ambrosia Aphid
Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 19 May, 2007 - 8:46pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman
Last updated 13 October, 2009 - 3:20pm

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