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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) » Drepanosiphinae » Drepanaphis » Painted Maple Aphid (Drepanaphis acerifoliae)
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Painted Maple Aphid - Drepanaphis acerifoliae
Copyright © 2012 Robert Lord Zimlich

Painted Maple Aphid - Drepanaphis acerifoliae
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
October 30, 2012
Size: 3.5mm
The most distinctive psyllid I've seen? Perhaps an aphid, though I cannot find anything with this wing shape or venation. The projecting spines on thorax are more reminiscent of assassins, but the antennal tubercles are located on top of the head. I need some help with this sucker before I have a meltdown trying to ID :D

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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 31 October, 2012 - 10:40am
Last updated 23 September, 2013 - 4:58pm

Painted Maple Aphid
Moved from ID Request.

Thanks, Natalie. I tried googling aphid anatomy and could not find anything with "spikes" or even antennae banded like this specimen.
Tobert
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 31 October, 2012 - 1:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Yeah just not a whole lot out there.
Before I started studying aphids I knew jack about them, and trying to find information on them is extremely difficult. Really a tough group that needs a lot of work.
… Natalie Hernandez, 31 October, 2012 - 4:07pm login or register to post comments

Aphid
Drepanaphis acerifoliae

In the key for this genus this species keys out very early since they have dark prothoracic femora (especially dorsally), fuscous around the wing veins, and large tubercles.

… Natalie Hernandez, 31 October, 2012 - 12:57pm login or register to post comments

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