Rhopalosiphum
Genus of true bugs
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Rhopalosiphum is a genus of aphid of the family Aphididae that includes 17 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 plant pathogens.[2]
| Rhopalosiphum | |
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| R. maidis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Aphididae |
| Subfamily: | Aphidinae |
| Tribe: | Aphidini |
| Genus: | Rhopalosiphum Koch, 1854 |
Selected species
Species include:[3]
- Rhopalosiphum cerasifoliae (Fitch, 1855)
- Rhopalosiphum chusqueae Pérez Hidalgo & Villalobos Muller, 2012[4]
- Rhopalosiphum enigmae F. C. Hottes and T. H. Frison, 1931
- 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 oxyacanthae (Schrank, 1801) - apple-grass aphid[5]
- 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
