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Aphid Species File
Genus

Rhopalosiphum Koch, 1854

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Rhopalosiphum Koch, 1854

Nomenclature (232)

  • Nymphaeifex Amyot, 1847: 479.
  • Oxyacanthaphis Amyot, 1847: 478.

    type species by original monotypy Aphis oxyacanthae Schrank, 1801

  • Myzus (unavailable or invalid, linked to Rhopalosiphum Koch, 1854)
  • Aphis (unavailable or invalid, linked to Stenaphis Del Guercio, 1914)

Nomenclature references (106)

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  • Walker, F. (1858) List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Vol. Supplement. Edward Newman, London, 307 pp.
  • Passerini, G. (1860) Gli afidi con un prospetto dei generi ed alcune specie nuove Italiane. Tipografia Carmignani, Parma, Italy, 40 pp.
  • Passerini, G. (1863) Aphididae Italicae hucusque observatae. Archivio per la Zoologia, 2(2), 129–212.
  • Walker, F. (1868) Notes on Aphides. The Zoologist, 3(January), 1048–1053.
  • Walker, F. (1868) Notes on Aphides. The Zoologist, 3(March), 1118–1123.
  • Thomas, C. (1878) A list of the species of the tribe Aphidini, family Aphidae, found in the United States, which have heretofore been named, with descriptions of some new species. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 1(2), 3–16. [1877]
  • Buckton, G.B. (1879) Monograph of British Aphides. The Ray Society, London, Vol. 2, 176 pp. [in English]
  • Monell, J.T. (1879) Part 2. Notes on Aphidinae, with descriptions of new species. In Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 18–32.
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  • Macchiati, L. (1882) Aggiunta agli afidi di Sardegna. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 14(2), 243–249.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1882) Nomenclator zoologicus. An alphabetical list of all generic names that have been employed by naturalists for recent and fossil animals from the earliest times to the close of the year 1879. I. Supplemental list of genera in Zoology. List of generic names employed in zoology and paleontology to the close of the year 1879, chiefly supplemental to those catalogued by Agassiz and Marschall, or indexed in the Zoological Record. 19(1), 1–376.
  • Macchiati, L. (1883) Fauna e flora degli afidi di Calabria. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 15(2-3), 221–240.
  • Oestlund, O.W. (1886) List of the Aphididae of Minnesota with descriptions of some new species. Annual Report of the Minnesota State Geological and Natural History Survey, 14, 17–56.
  • Oestlund, O.W. (1887) Synopsis of the Aphididae of Minnesota. Bulletin of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, 4, 100 pp.
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  • Williams, T.A. (1891) Host-plant list of North American Aphididae. University of Nebraska Department of Entomology Special Bulletin, 1, 1–28.
  • Cholodkovsky, N.A. (1898) Explanatory Catalog of the Aphid Collection (Aphidae). Zoological Cabinet of St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, 24 pp.
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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus102728
Species160185201