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Species Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae - Waterlily Aphid

Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae Aquatic bug - Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae Rhopalosiphum sp ? - Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae waterlily aphids - Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae Water lily aphids - Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae - female Waterlily Aphid - Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae waterlily aphid - Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae Audubon Center water aphid - Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
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 Aphidini
Subtribe Rhopalosiphina
Genus Rhopalosiphum
Species nymphaeae (Waterlily Aphid)
Explanation of Names
Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (Linnaeus 1761)
Range
native to the Palaearctic, adventive and now transcontinental in NA(1)(2)
Food
on various aquatic plants(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: NE 1890(1)
Works Cited
1.Adventive aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) of America north of Mexico
Foottit R.G., Halbert S.E., Miller G.L., Maw E., Russell L.M. 2006. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 108: 583-610.
2.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.