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Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877

cotton aphid; melon aphid; puceron du melon
CollectionObject 1949133; a1fcdeac-9209-44ed-8490-3bdc713c9a09, NMNH Ent-396854: Neotype slide of Aphis gossypii. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1949133; a1fcdeac-9209-44ed-8490-3bdc713c9a09, NMNH Ent-396854: Neotype slide of Aphis gossypii. (CollectionObject).
Habitus, dorsal view.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: alate viviparous female: Body of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: apterous viviparous female: Body of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: alate viviparous female: Antennal segmens:II and III of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: apterous viviparous female: Antennal segments:II-IV of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Subgenital plate.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: alate viviparous female: Rostrum (URS) of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Stylus.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: alate viviparous female: First marginal tubercle and coxa of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: alate viviparous female: Siphunculus (SI) of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: apterous viviparous female: Seventh marginal tubercle of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: alate viviparous female: Cauda (CA) of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: apterous viviparous female: Cauda (CA) of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Connective.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: alate viviparous female: Hairs on subgenital plate of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Forewing.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: alate viviparous female: Hairs on eighth abdominal tergite of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Forewing.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: apterous viviparous female: Hairs on eighth abdominal tergite of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Hind wing.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: alate viviparous female: Seventh marginal tubercle of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Hind wing.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: apterous viviparous female: Seventh marginal tubercle of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Head.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: alate viviparous female: Hind tibia of A. gossypii. (Observation).
Head.: !! display not done !! on Aphis (Aphis) gossypii Glover, 1877: apterous viviparous female: Hind tibia of A. gossypii. (Observation).

Nomenclature (14)

  • Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877: 36.

    Neotype; adult, female, vivipara, aptera; NMNH Ent-396854; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH); United States: South Carolina: Calhoun: USA: South Carolina, Calhoun County

  • Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877 in Takahashi, 1929: 428.
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  • Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877 in Nieto Nafría, Ortego & Mier Durante, 2024: 70. Key
  • Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877 in Mehrparvar & Kadyrbekov, 2024: 74.

Nomenclature references (15)

  • Basu, R.C. & Raychaudhuri, D.N. (1980) A study on the sexuales of aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) in India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper, 18, 54 pp. [in English]
  • Das, B.C. & Raychaudhuri, D.N. (1983) Aphids (Homoptera - Aphididae) of Nepal. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional paper 51, 79 pp. [in English]
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  • Favret, C. & Miller, G.L. (2011) The neotype of the cotton aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Aphis gossypii Glover 1877). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 113(2), 119–126. [in English] https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.113.2.119
  • Ghosh, L.K. (1990) A taxonomic review of the genus Aphis Linnaeus (Homoptera: Aphididae) in India. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India, 17(3), 1–159.
  • Glover, T. (1877) Report of the entomologist and curator of the museum. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the Operations of the Department, year 1876, 17–46.
  • González Rodríguez, S., Mier Durante, M.P., Ortego, J. & Nieto Nafría, J.M. (2018) Tres nuevas especies del género Aphis Linnaeus (Hemiptera, Aphididae) viviendo sobre verbenáceas (Verbenaceae) en la Argentina. Graellsia, 74(1), e070, 11 pp.
  • Mehrparvar, M. & Kadyrbekov, R.K. (2024) Aphids associated with Lactuca (Asteraceae) in Iran with descriptions of two new species (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 313, 73–84. [in English] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2024.08.002
  • Mehrparvar, M., Mansouri, S.M. & Malekpourzadeh, L. (2024) Aphids associated with Lamiaceae in Iran with redescription of Ovatus mentharius (van der Goot, 1913) (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, 44(2), 217–238. [in English] https://doi.org/10.61186/jesi.44.2.10
  • Nieto Nafría, J.M. & Ortego, J. (2023) Two new synonymies and two new combinations of four Argentine Aphis species (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Aphidina). Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, 47(3-4), 115–121. [in Spanish; Castilian]
  • Nieto Nafría, J.M., Ortego, J. & Mier Durante, M.P. (2024) Tres estudios taxonómicos sobre pulgones (Hemiptera, Aphididae) de América del Sur. Suplementos del Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, 6, 1–76. [in Spanish; Castilian]
  • Raychaudhuri, D.N., Ghosh, L.K. & Das, S.K. (1980) Studies on the aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) from north and north-west India, 1. Insecta Matsumurana, 20, 1–42. [in English] Available at https://hdl.handle.net/2115/9804
  • Smith, C.F. & Parron, C.S. (1978) An annotated list of Aphididae (Homoptera) of North America. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin, 255, 428 pp. [in English]
  • Takahashi, R. (1929) Aphididae and Coccidae of the Pescadores. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 19(104), 425–431. [in Japanese]
  • Takahashi, R. (1941) Some Aphididae from South China and Hainan (Homoptera), V. Some species from Hongkong. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 31, 31–34. [in English]
  • Takahashi, R. (1941) Some injurious insects of agricultural plants and forest trees in Siam and Indo-China, I Aphididae. Report of the Government Agricultural Research Institute Taiwan, Nippon (Japan), 78, 1–27. [in English]

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
species1023
subspecies207375