Aphis

{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}}

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| image = Soybeanaphid.jpg

| image_caption = Soybean aphid

| taxon = Aphis

| authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| type_species = Aphis sambuci{{cite book |last1=Remaudière |first1=G. |first2=M. |last2=Remaudière |title=Catalogue of the World's Aphididae |publisher=INRA |location=Paris |date=1997 |isbn=2738007147 |pages= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aMu85uu6XOcC |series=Techniques et pratiques }}

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| diversity_link = List of Aphis species

| diversity = at least 600 species

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Aphis is a genus of insects in the family Aphididae containing at least 600 species of aphids.[http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/programs/aphids.html Aphid Research] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703191544/http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/programs/aphids.html |date=2010-07-03 }}, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign It includes many notorious agricultural pests, such as the soybean aphid Aphis glycines. Many species of Aphis, such as A. coreopsidis and A. fabae, are myrmecophiles, forming close associations with ants.{{cite journal |last1=Altfeld |first1=L. |first2=P. |last2=Stiling |title=Argentine ants strongly affect some but not all common insects on Baccharis halimifolia |journal=Environmental Entomology |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=31–36 |date=2006 |doi=10.1603/0046-225X-35.1.31 |s2cid=85849541 |doi-access= }}

Selected Species

See also

Photos

Image:Aphis citricola1.jpg|Aphis citricola

Image:Aphis fabae STEREO, 0050x.JPG|Aphis fabae

Image:Aphis.sambuci.jpg|Aphis sambuci

File:Aphids_on_Helleborus_niger.jpg|Aphis sp. on Helleborus niger

Image:Aphis.sambuci.colony.jpg|Aphis sambuci

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