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Genus Hamamelistes

Scale insect based community - Hamamelistes spinosus

aphids/scale on birch - Hamamelistes spinosus

birch laef aphids - Hamamelistes spinosus

Spiny Witch Hazel Gall - Hamamelistes spinosus

Spiny Witch-Hazel Gall Aphid - Hamamelistes spinosus

Aphids? on paper birch - Hamamelistes spinosus

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 Hormaphidinae (Witch Hazel Gall Aphids and Palm Aphids)

Genus Hamamelistes

Explanation of Names

Author: Shimer 1867.

Numbers

Only one species listed in Nearctica.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 28 December, 2008 - 10:51pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 4 December, 2009 - 4:50pm

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