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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 rurale
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Gray Aphids - Uroleucon rurale
Copyright © 2012 Nancy Kent

Gray Aphids - Uroleucon rurale
Wildwood Park; Radford, Virginia, USA
August 21, 2012
I'd like an ID, please. The host plant is a Verbesina.

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Contributed by Nancy Kent on 24 August, 2012 - 9:42pm
Last updated 30 September, 2020 - 8:17pm

Moved
Moved from Uroleucon.

Helps that I now know U. rurale is green with dark appendages and U. verbisinae is black or red.
… Natalie Hernandez, 30 September, 2020 - 6:59pm login or register to post comments

thanks, Natter; most helpful, as always
Moved from Aphids.
… v belov, 29 August, 2012 - 4:48pm login or register to post comments

Probably Uroleucon
I can't see the right characteristics to be positive, but the dark siphunculi, dark cauda, and general shape make me think Uroleucon. Not many aphids are observed feeding on Verbesina and the only other one that would look similar at all is Macrosiphum euphorbiae which wouldn't have a dark cauda or siphunculi. U. rurale or U. verbesinae are the two species that would have dark siphunculi and a dark cauda, but you'd have to look at the rostrum to distinguish between the species, although U. rurale is listed as occuring in your area and U. verbesinae usually occurs further south. U. verbesinae is also described as "shining bright red or black". So perhaps this is U. rurale after all. I'm done babbling now.
… Natalie Hernandez, 29 August, 2012 - 12:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks,
Natalie, I do understand babble fairly well!
… Nancy Kent, 29 August, 2012 - 12:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
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