Rhopalosiphum

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)

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