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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)
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Red aphids on giant ragweed. - Uroleucon
Copyright © 2017 Ken Childs

Red aphids on giant ragweed. - Uroleucon
Beech Bluff, Madison County, Tennessee, USA
June 22, 2017
Plant is Ambrosia trifida.
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Contributed by Ken Childs on 23 June, 2017 - 9:41am
Last updated 4 July, 2017 - 4:31pm

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Ken Childs, 4 July, 2017 - 4:31pm login or register to post comments

Uroleucon
Probably Uroleucon ambrosiae.
… Natalie Hernandez, 4 July, 2017 - 10:18am login or register to post comments

 
Do you think it's safe to mov
Do you think it's safe to move it to the U. ambrosiae page or should I just go with Uroleucon sp.?
… Ken Childs, 4 July, 2017 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

 
I'd leave it at genus.
Uroleucon is such a mess, I'm never positive on species with these, even when I'm looking at a slide mounted specimen I can magnify a billion times. 😄
… Natalie Hernandez, 4 July, 2017 - 4:27pm login or register to post comments

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