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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)
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Aphididae, on Giant Ragweed, with pollen camo - Uroleucon ambrosiae
Copyright © 2020 MJ Hatfield

Aphididae, on Giant Ragweed, with pollen camo - Uroleucon ambrosiae
Red Oak Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
August 26, 2020
perhaps Brown Ambrosia Aphid, pale cauda
found while looking for Schinia larvae (did not find) on Giant ragweed, Ambrosia trifida, at the edge of a hill prairie remnant

small batch of aphids

Images of this individual: tag all
Aphididae, on Giant Ragweed, with pollen camo - Uroleucon ambrosiae Aphididae, another individual, lateral - Uroleucon ambrosiae Aphididae, dorsal - Uroleucon ambrosiae
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 29 November, 2020 - 4:11pm
Last updated 2 December, 2020 - 11:29am

Moved
Moved from Uroleucon.
… Natalie Hernandez, 2 December, 2020 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Natalie Hernandez, 1 December, 2020 - 1:47pm login or register to post comments

Uroleucon at least.
Looking at the Ambrosia key, the pale cauda could be U. ambrosiae or U. ivae and the pale areas of the legs separate them, but that's referring to apterous specimens. Alate specimens tend to be more sclerotized than apterous, the legs don't seem to fit the last couplet separating the two.
… Natalie Hernandez, 1 December, 2020 - 1:41pm login or register to post comments

 
I added
photos of another individual from the batch (they are in ETOH now) but I never saw any without wings. (But I as looking for lep larvae.)
… MJ Hatfield, 1 December, 2020 - 9:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Alright, I think this makes sense then.
Apparently I'm having a hard time with reading. Couplet 9 has a note for the alata that says the hind tibiae are entirely dark in ambrosiae and in ivae they have a pale basal section, so this must be ambrosiae.

http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/C_HOSTS_Aln_Ang.htm#Ambrosia
… Natalie Hernandez, 2 December, 2020 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

 
Yeah.
Thank you.


Apparently I have a hard time proofing my typing/spelling.
… MJ Hatfield, 2 December, 2020 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

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