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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)
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aphid
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

aphid
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
October 31, 2009
Size: 3mm
Caught by sweep netting through a hemlock tree.

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aphid aphid
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Contributed by tom murray on 31 October, 2009 - 11:23pm
Last updated 27 October, 2017 - 4:50pm

Moved - Incorrect ID
Moved from Giant Conifer Aphids.

Cinara have a twice branched m-vein, a straight radial sector, and volcano-shaped siphunculi. This specimen has an unbranched m-vein, a slightly curved radial sector, and no visible siphunculi (could be absent or poriform).
… Natalie Hernandez, 27 October, 2017 - 3:19pm login or register to post comments

ID
Cinara
… Andrew Jensen, 14 December, 2009 - 8:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Charley, it looks like a good choice, and it was on the right type of host.
… tom murray, 11 December, 2009 - 5:47pm login or register to post comments

Giant conifer aphid (Cinara)?
This seems to be the only winged individual we have in that section:

Better match for that than for the few images we have of adult adelgids:
… Charley Eiseman, 11 December, 2009 - 11:49am login or register to post comments

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