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Species Therioaphis trifolii - Yellow Clover Aphid

Yellow Clover Aphid - Therioaphis trifolii - female

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 Calaphidinae

Tribe Panaphidini

Subtribe Panaphidina

Genus Therioaphis

No Taxon (Subgenus Pterocallidium)

Species trifolii (Yellow Clover Aphid)

Explanation of Names

Author: Monell

Identification

Therioaphis adults have a dark band from eye to eye on the ventral side of the face. [Natalie Hernandez email]

Food

Leguminosae, Trifolium, Medicago

Remarks

Introduced from Europe, 1879

Internet References

Fact sheet

Contributed by Claude Pilon on 7 January, 2011 - 1:58pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, KenW, Marci Hess
Last updated 24 September, 2017 - 3:58pm

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