Rhopalosiphum

Rhopalosiphum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Aphididae
Tribe:	Aphidini
Genus:	Rhopalosiphum Koch, 1854

Rhopalosiphum is a genus of aphid of the family Aphididae that includes 16 species worldwide.^[1] In addition to direct behavior as pests on host plants, some species are vectors for viral pathogens.^[2]

Species

Species include:^[3]

Rhopalosiphum arundinariae (A. N. Tissot, 1933)
Rhopalosiphum cerasifoliae (Fitch, 1855)
Rhopalosiphum enigmae (F. C. Hottes and T. H. Frison, 1931)
Rhopalosiphum insertum (Walker, 1849) - apple-grass aphid
Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch, 1856) - corn leaf aphid
Rhopalosiphum musae (H. Schouteden, 1906)
Rhopalosiphum nigrum (Richards, 1960)
Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (Linnaeus, 1761) - water lily aphid, plum aphid
Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus, 1758) - bird cherry-oat aphid
Rhopalosiphum padiformis (Richards, 1962)
Rhopalosiphum parvae (Hottes and Frison, 1931)
Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominalis (Sasaki, 1899) - rice root aphid
Rhopalosiphum rufulum (Richards, 1960)

References

^ Heie, O. E. (1997). The Aphidoidea (Hemiptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark: Family Aphididae - Subfamily Pterocommatinae and Tribe Aphidini of Subfamily Aphidinae (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 314. ISBN 978-9004080881.
^ Taber, S. W. (1994). "Labile behavioral evolution in a genus of agricultural pests: The Rhopalosiphum plant lice (Hemiptera: Aphididae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Lanham, Maryland: Entomological Society of America) 87 (3): 311–320.
^ "Nomina Insecta Nearctica". 1998. http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/hemips/aphid.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-21.

External links

Bird Cherry-Oat Aphid, Kansas State University, July 2008