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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) » Calaphidinae » Calaphidini
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aphid (yellow)
Copyright © 2012 Ilze V-G.

aphid (yellow)
City of Greater Sudbury, Fairbank Lake, Ontario, Canada
October 12, 2012
Size: approx 5mm
Small yellow insect with brown markings. Is it a leaf hopper?
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Contributed by Ilze V-G. on 17 October, 2012 - 11:45am
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 12:06pm

Moved tentatively based on the following pers. comm. from...
...Andrew Jensen: "Based on time of year and location, this is probably an ovipara, possibly not quite mature, and it is almost certainly Calaphidinae, something like Calaphis or Oestlundiella."

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 17 October, 2012 - 2:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Confused on Calaphidinae.
So most the books I use say the subfamily is Myzocallidinae, an then some say Calaphidinae. Is there a definite decision on that or does it just depend on the aphidologist you're talking to?
… Natalie Hernandez, 17 October, 2012 - 2:10pm login or register to post comments

 
why Calaphidinae:
on BG, we follow the classif. in Aphid Species File(1), adopted tacitly as BG's 'standard' source [see(2)]
the synopsis on the family page was reviewed and approved by Dr Jensen
… v belov, 17 October, 2012 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

I see siphunculi!
Very very short little black ones. This makes me think Chaitophorinae or Myzocallidinae. I can't see the cauda at all though, and I'm not all that great with apterous aphids.
… Natalie Hernandez, 17 October, 2012 - 1:10pm login or register to post comments

 
great --thanks, Natter.
hands-on experience makes all the difference.
… v belov, 17 October, 2012 - 1:16pm login or register to post comments

aphid of sorts, i suspect... syphoneless
… v belov, 17 October, 2012 - 12:21pm login or register to post comments

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