Rhopalosiphum Explained

Rhopalosiphum is a genus of aphid of the family Aphididae that includes 16 species worldwide.^[1] Apart from sucking the phloem of host plants and thereby being treated in agriculture as pests, some species are vectors for viral pathogens.^[2]

Species

Species include:^[3]

• Rhopalosiphum arundinariae (A. N. Tissot, 1933)
• Rhopalosiphum cerasifoliae (Fitch, 1855)
• Rhopalosiphum chusqueae (Pérez Hidalgo & Villalobos Muller, 2012^[4])
• 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 (Schouteden, 1906)
• Rhopalosiphum nigrum (Richards, 1960)
• Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (Linnaeus, 1761) - water lily or plum aphid
• Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus, 1758) - bird cherry-oat aphid
• Rhopalosiphum padiformis (Richards, 1962)
• Rhopalosiphum parvae (Hottes and Frison, 1931)
• Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale (Sasaki, 1899) - rice root aphid
• Rhopalosiphum rufulum (Richards, 1960)

External links

• Bird Cherry-Oat Aphid, Kansas State University, July 2008
• Water lily aphid

Notes and References

1. Book: Heie, O. E. . The Aphidoidea (Hemiptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark: Family Aphididae - Subfamily Pterocommatinae and Tribe Aphidini of Subfamily Aphidinae (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica) . Brill Academic Publishers . 1997 . Leiden, The Netherlands . 314 . 978-90-04-08088-1.
2. Taber . S. W. . Labile behavioral evolution in a genus of agricultural pests: The Rhopalosiphum plant lice (Hemiptera: Aphididae) . Annals of the Entomological Society of America . 87 . 3 . 311–320 . . Lanham, Maryland . 1994 . 10.1093/aesa/87.3.311 .
3. Web site: Nomina Insecta Nearctica. 1998. 2008-03-21. 2008-05-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20080518034455/http://nearctica.com/nomina/hemips/aphid.htm. dead.
4. Pérez-Hidalgo. Nicolás. David . Martínez-Torres. Jorge Mariano . Collantes-Alegre. William Villalobos . Muller. Juan M. Nieto. Nafría.. A new species of Rhopalosiphum (Hemiptera, Aphididae) on Chusquea tomentosa (Poaceae, Bambusoideae) from Costa Rica . ZooKeys . 166. 59–73 . 2012. 10.3897/zookeys.166.2387 . 22328859 . 3272636. free.