Sipha (Sipha) agropyronensis ( Gillette 1911 )

Halbert, Susan E., Miller, Gary L. & Ames, Lisa M., 2013, The genus Sipha Passerini (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in North America, Insecta Mundi 2013 (326), pp. 1-6 : 2

Sipha (Sipha) agropyronensis ( Gillette 1911) ( Fig. 1 )

This is an obscure native species known from Colorado ( Smith and Parron 1978; Palmer 1952), California and Montana ( Jensen et al. 2008). It is characterized by its smooth body, and by a very short processus terminalis on the antennae ( Palmer 1952; Blackman and Eastop 2006).

Figures

Figures 1-9. 1) Slide mounted Sipha agropyronensis (Gillette). Photograph: Gary Miller. 2) Colony of Sipha flava (Forbes). Photograph: David J. Voegtlin, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL. 3) Slide mounted Sipha flava (Forbes) alate. Photograph: Susan Halbert and Lyle J Buss, University of Florida, Gainesville. 4) Slide mounted Sipha flava (Forbes) aptera. Photograph: Susan Halbert and Lyle J Buss, University of Florida, Gainesville. 5) Damage from Sipha glyceriae (Kaltenbach) on rice in Italy. Photograph: Susan Halbert. 6) Slide mounted Sipha glyceriae (Kaltenbach) alate from North America. Photograph: Gary Miller. 7) Slide mounted Sipha glyceriae (Kaltenbach) aptera from North America. Photograph: Gary Miller. 8) Sipha elegans del Guercio on Agropyron sp. inIdaho.Photograph:Susan Halbert. 9) Sipha elegans del Guercio on Triticum aestivum (wheat) in Idaho. Photograph: Susan Halbert and Guy W. Bishop, University of Idaho, emeritus.