Species Amphorophora ampullata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

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 Amphorophora

No Taxon (Subgenus Amphorophora)

Species ampullata (Amphorophora ampullata)

Explanation of Names

Amphorophora (Amphorophora) ampullata Buckton 1876

Size

3.0-5.0 mm(1)

Range

native to Europe, adventive in NA(2), widespread in the east (NF-SK)(3)

Food

hosts: various ferns(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: MN 1887(2)

Works Cited

1.	Aphids on the World's Herbaceous Plants and Shrubs Blackman and Eastop. 2007. Wiley.

2.	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.

3.	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.

Contributed by Claude Pilon on 8 May, 2012 - 3:05pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 23 May, 2013 - 6:15pm

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