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Species Myzus cerasi - Black Cherry Aphid

Black Cherry Aphids - Myzus cerasi - female

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 cerasi (Black Cherry Aphid)

Other Common Names

Cherry Blackfly, Cherry Aphid.

Remarks

Introduced from Europe, 1915. Considered a pest of fruit trees in the Prunus genus in particular.

Internet References

MSU.edu - Info and pictures here

InsectImages.org - Pictures of different stages of development

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 1 June, 2008 - 9:19pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 10 April, 2010 - 10:10am

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