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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) » Giant Aphids (Lachninae) » Eulachnini » Giant Conifer Aphids (Cinara) » Subgenus Cinara (Cinara Subgenus Cinara) » Pine Aphid (Cinara pinea)

Species Cinara pinea - Pine Aphid

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Season · Food · Remarks · Internet References
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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 Lachninae (Giant Aphids)
Tribe Eulachnini
Genus Cinara (Giant Conifer Aphids)
No Taxon (Subgenus Cinara)
Species pinea (Pine Aphid)
Explanation of Names
Author: Morvilko
Size
3.1-5.2 mm
Identification
Apterae are shiny orange-brown (spring) to grey or dark brown finely spotted with black and dusted with wax (summer)
Season
Oviparae and males in October.
Food
Pinus
Remarks
Introduced from the Palearctic, 1919
Internet References
Aphids on world plants
Contributed by Claude Pilon on 10 January, 2011 - 1:29pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 19 January, 2011 - 3:01pm

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