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Soybean aphid
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Superfamily: Aphidoidea
Family: Aphididae
Subfamily: Aphidinae
Genus: Aphis
Linnaeus, 1758

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Aphis is a genus of insects in the family Aphididae containing about 400 species of aphids.[1] It includes many notorious agricultural pests, such as the soybean aphid A. glycines. Many species of Aphis, such as A. coreopsidis, are myrmecophiles, forming close associations with ants.[2]

Aphis sambuci colony

Species include:



  1. ^ Aphid Research, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  2. ^ Altfeld, L. and P. Stiling. ( 2006). Argentine ants strongly affect some but not all common insects on Baccharis halimifolia Environmental Entomology 35:1 31-6.

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