Aphis sambuci
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| Aphis sambuci | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Aphididae |
| Genus: | Aphis |
| Species: | A. sambuci |
| Binomial name | |
| Aphis sambuci Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Aphis sambuci, commonly known as the elderberry aphid, is a species of aphid distributed in all the Holarctic regions except for Japan and Korea.[1][2]
The main host species of this aphid is Sambucus ssp. It has been mainly recorded on the Eurasian black elderberry but has also been found on the North American subspecies of red elderberry.[2]
