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Aphididae on Showy Tick-trefoil - Microparsus
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Aphididae on Showy Tick-trefoil - Microparsus
Craggy Rocks, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
August 20, 2020
On a night time meander in a planted prairie, found aphids on Showy tick-trefoil, Desmodium canadense, and this larva.


Perhaps Microparsus olivei as per

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 16 January, 2021 - 3:54pm
Last updated 21 January, 2021 - 4:59pm

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Natalie Hernandez, 21 January, 2021 - 4:59pm login or register to post comments

Don't have the dark ring around the siphunculi
M. olivei has the large dark pre and post siphuncular sclerities, but M. variabilis has dusky post and pre siphuncular sclerites so they don't form that dark ring. These look weird though, especially the alate. Perhaps the host plant wasn't healthy so they didn't develop correctly.
… Natalie Hernandez, 19 January, 2021 - 11:34am login or register to post comments

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