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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) » Woolly Aphids and Gall-making Aphids (Eriosomatinae) » Pemphigini » Pemphigus » Pemphigus populicaulis

Species Pemphigus populicaulis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Eriosomatinae (Woolly Aphids and Gall-making Aphids)
Tribe Pemphigini
Genus Pemphigus
Species populicaulis (Pemphigus populicaulis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
First described in 1859 by Asa Fitch under the name Pemphigus populicaulis
Explanation of Names
populicaulis is from Latin populus, the scientific name for the poplar tree + caulis- "stalk or stem", probably both in the genitive case- thus meaning "of poplar stalks or stems". Fitch gave this species the common name "Poplar-stem Gall-louse", based on the obsolete name of "Plant Lice" for aphids.
Remarks
Causes twisted, subglobular galls with oblique openings at the base of cottonwood (Populus) leaf blades. (1)
Internet References
Fifth Report On The Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects of New York State, p.845-849 Asa Fitch's original description of the species
Works Cited
1.Plant Galls and Gall Makers
Ephraim Porter Felt. 1940. Comstock Publishing Company, Inc., Ithaca NY.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 19 July, 2009 - 5:52pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz
Last updated 26 October, 2009 - 8:44am

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