Species Acyrthosiphon pisum - Pea Aphid

Winged female Pea aphid? - Acyrthosiphon pisum - female

Aphid, looks like maybe Illinoia - Acyrthosiphon pisum

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 Aphidinae

Tribe Macrosiphini

Genus Acyrthosiphon

Species pisum (Pea Aphid)

Remarks

The most common pest aphid on legumes like alfalfa in northwestern N. America. It causes hundreds of millions of dollars of crop damage a year.

Non-native, first reported in 1877, from the Palearctic region.

Print References

Foottit, R. G. et al.: Adventive Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) of America North of Mexico. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 108 (3), 2006, pp 583-610.

Internet References

Discover Life.

Genome Project.

Encyclopedia of Life.

Aphid info

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 4 December, 2009 - 5:12pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 2 July, 2021 - 2:51pm

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Species Acyrthosiphon pisum - Pea Aphid

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Classification

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Internet References