Nasonovia ribisnigri
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Nasonovia ribisnigri (Mosley, 1841)
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Nasonovia ribisnigri is a species of aphid. Their primary hosts are currant plants, including blackcurrants (Ribes nigrum) and gooseberries (Ribes uva-crispa), while the secondary hosts are a wider range of plants, including members of the Compositae (Hieracium, Lapsana, Crepis, Leontodon and Cichorium), Lamiales (Veronica and Euphrasia) and Solanaceae (Nicotiana and Petunia).[1]
Males grow to a length of 2.5 millimetres (0.098 in), while viviparous females are 1.7–3.2 mm (0.067–0.126 in) long, but oviparous female only reach 1.6–1.7 mm (0.063–0.067 in).[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c Ole E. Heie (1994). "Nasonovia (Nasonovia) ribisnigri (Mosley, 1841)". The Aphidoidea (Hemiptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark: Family Aphididae. of tribe Macrosiphini of subfamily Aphidinae, Volume 5, Part 2. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. Brill. pp. 59–61. ISBN 978-90-04-09899-2.
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- Macrosiphini
- Insects described in 1841
- Hemiptera of Europe
- Aphididae stubs