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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) » Mindarinae » Mindarus
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Is This an Aphid Covered in Fungus? - Mindarus
Copyright © 2020 Mardon Erbland

Is This an Aphid Covered in Fungus? - Mindarus
N47° 37' 51.54" W52° 41' 16.88" Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
July 22, 2019
Size: 2.5 mm nose to wing tips
Found by sweeping some tall weeds with a net. Seems to be covered with a fungus.

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Is This an Aphid Covered in Fungus? - Mindarus Is This an Aphid Covered in Fungus? - Mindarus
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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 22 July, 2020 - 4:33pm
Last updated 30 July, 2020 - 6:40pm

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Natalie Hernandez, 30 July, 2020 - 6:40pm login or register to post comments

Wooo an easy one!
See how that dark edge of the wing tapers around the apex of the wing? That is a key characteristic of Mindarus. The little vein underneath the dark edge, plus the one beneath that with one fork in it, are also characteristics of Mindarus.

Also, they produce wax, so this is not fungus.
… Natalie Hernandez, 30 July, 2020 - 6:40pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Might be a woolly aphid (Eriosomatinae) rather than a fungus victim.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 22 July, 2020 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

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