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Aphis

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aphididae

Taxonomy

Aphis was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Aphididae, Aphidoidea, Aphidinae, Aphidini, Aphidina.

It was assigned to Proboscidea by Scopoli (1763); to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Ryngota by Fabricius (1775); to Hemiptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Aphidii by Latreille (1802); to Aphididae by Heer (1853); and to Aphidina by Kim et al. (2011).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Aphis Linnaeus p. 451
1761	Aphis Linnaeus p. 258
1762	Aphis Geoffroy p. 489
1763	Aphis Scopoli p. 136
1764	Aphis Müller p. 29
1766	Aphis Schaeffer
1767	Aphis Linnaeus p. 733
1775	Aphis Fabricius p. 733
1776	Aphis Müller p. 109
1796	Aphis Latreille p. 92
1802	Aphis Latreille p. 264
1853	Aphis Heer p. 121
2011	Aphis Kim et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923

Rank	Name	Author
—	Clareocercaria
—	Acercaria	()
superorder	Pancondylognatha
—	Condylognatha
order	Hemiptera
suborder	Sternorrhyncha	()
—	Aphidiformes	Schlee 1969
infraorder	Aphidomorpha
superfamily	Aphidoidea
family	Aphididae	()
subfamily	Aphidinae
tribe	Aphidini
subtribe	Aphidina
genus	Aphis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Aphis Linnaeus 1758

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Collections

No collection or age range data are available