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Insects that attack aphids include the adults and larvae of predatory ladybirds, hoverfly larvae, parasitic wasps, aphid midge larvae, "aphid lions" (the larvae of green lacewings), and arachnids such as spiders.
The Aphididae are a very large insect family in the aphid superfamily , of the order Hemiptera. These insects suck the sap from plant leaves. Several thousand species are placed in this family, many of which are considered plant/crop pests.
Insects from the families Aphidiinae (not to be confused with the aphid subfamily Aphidinae) and Aphelinus are parasites that specialize on aphids. Both of these groups inject an egg into the body of an aphid.
Acyrthosiphon pisum, commonly known as the pea aphid (and colloquially known as the green dolphin, [1] [2] pea louse, and clover louse [3]), is a sap-sucking insect in the family Aphididae.
More than 5200 species of aphid have been described, of which at least 5000 are true aphids - insects in the family Aphididae. The Aphididae currently has 510 genera, and is one of three families in the superfamily Aphidoidea (as defined by Remaudière & Remaudière, 1997).
15 maj 2017 · The cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae), is an important cosmopolitan pest that attacks numerous cultivated plants, such as Cucurbitaceae, Rutaceae and Malvaceae,...
1 lip 2013 · Here we summarize how our results compare to the most recent phylogeny for Aphididae based on aphid genes (Ortiz-Rivas and Martínez-Torres, 2010). First, relationships strongly supported by both Buchnera and aphid sequences include monophyly of individual tribes and monophyly of Lachninae.
