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The Aphididae are a very large insect family in the aphid superfamily , of the order Hemiptera. These insects suck the sap from plant leaves. These insects suck the sap from plant leaves. Several thousand species are placed in this family , many of which are considered plant/crop pests.
Plant sap is an unbalanced diet for aphids, as it lacks essential amino acids, which aphids, like all animals, cannot synthesise, and possesses a high osmotic pressure due to its high sucrose concentration. [35] [43] Essential amino acids are provided to aphids by bacterial endosymbionts, harboured in special cells, bacteriocytes. [44]
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. It feeds on several species of legumes (plant family Fabaceae ) worldwide, including forage crops, such as pea , clover , alfalfa , and broad bean , [ 4 ...
These 283 genera belong to Aphidinae, a subfamily of aphids in the family Aphididae. There are at least 3,200 described species in Aphidinae. There are at least 3,200 described species in Aphidinae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Aphis is a genus of insects in the family Aphididae containing at least 600 species of aphids. [1] It includes many notorious agricultural pests , such as the soybean aphid Aphis glycines . Many species of Aphis , such as A. coreopsidis and A. fabae , are myrmecophiles , forming close associations with ants .
Wingless aphids feeding on a stem. The black bean aphid is a small, soft-bodied (meaning that the exocuticle part of the exoskeleton is greatly reduced) [5] insect that has specialised piercing and sucking mouthparts which are used to suck the juice from plants.
Aphidinae is an aphid subfamily in the family Aphididae.. Many species of aphids spread potyviruses and most are from the subfamily Aphidinae (genera Macrosiphum and Myzus).Most have alternative hosts, the primary host plant is usually a tree, and the secondary one is herbaceous.
Pemphigus spyrothecae is in the superfamily Aphidoidea, in the hymopterous division of the order Hemiptera, which consists of insects with sucking parts of the mouth. P. spyrothecae is a member of the suborder Sternorrhyncha, which includes scale insects, psyllids, whiteflies, aphids.