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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) » Aphidinae » Macrosiphini » Uroleucon » Subgenus Uromelan (Uroleucon Subgenus Uromelan) » Uroleucon helianthicola
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aphid on sunflower - Uroleucon helianthicola
Copyright © 2010 tom murray

aphid on sunflower - Uroleucon helianthicola
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 24, 2010
Size: 3mm

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aphid on sunflower - Uroleucon helianthicola aphids on sunflower - Uroleucon helianthicola
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Contributed by tom murray on 25 July, 2010 - 4:48pm

What led you to this species ID?
Several Uroleucon will colonize Helianthus spp., and U. helianthicola is described as reddish brown with black appendages, including siphunculi and cauda. This is a pretty bright red and the cauda is not black, I'd call that dusky tipped.

http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/C_HOSTS_Ham_Hot.htm#Helianthus

http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/d_APHIDS_U.htm#Uroleucon
… Natalie Hernandez, 5 October, 2022 - 12:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Don't remember
but I probably thought it looked like the others in the guide that also used Helianthus. I'll use your judgement where this should go, to genus or somewhere else.
… tom murray, 5 October, 2022 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

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