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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) » Phyllaphidinae » Phyllaphis » Woolly Beech Aphid (Phyllaphis fagi)
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Aphid on European Beech - Phyllaphis fagi
Copyright © 2013 Karl Hillig

Aphid on European Beech - Phyllaphis fagi
Ballston Lake, Saratoga County, New York, USA
May 29, 2011
Size: ~ 2 mm?
This aphid was on a River's Purple Beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Riversii'). Perhaps it's a Wooly Beech aphid (Phyllaphis fagi)? ID help appreciated.

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Contributed by Karl Hillig on 5 March, 2013 - 9:00am
Last updated 2 September, 2020 - 4:25pm

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Natalie Hernandez, 2 September, 2020 - 4:26pm login or register to post comments

Most Likely
It's hard to check the characters with all that wax, but seems like the three other species do not have dark appendages and also wouldn't occur in NY.

http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/d_APHIDS_P.htm?LMCL=Tg3zKn#Phyllaphis

Typical specimens seem to be a little bit darker, but some variation is described.

https://influentialpoints.com/Gallery/Phyllaphis_fagi_Woolly_beech_aphid.htm
… Natalie Hernandez, 2 September, 2020 - 4:22pm login or register to post comments

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