Trends in Biosciences
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 2

Description of Some Aphid Species (Homoptera: Aphididae: Aphidinae) Belonging to Tribe Macrosiphini Recorded from Aligarh Region

  • Author:
  • M.K. Usmani, Uzma Rafi
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 53 to 58

Section of Entomology, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202 002.

*Email: usmanikamil94@gmail.com

Abstract

Six species of Aphids belonging to tribe Macrosiphini are described from Aligarh district viz., Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) (Alatoid nymph.), Brevicoryne brassicae (Linnaeus) (Aptera), Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach) (Alata), Macrosiphoniella sanborni (Gillete) Alata), Macrosiphum (Sitobion) rosaeformis Das (Alata), Myzus persicae (Sulzer)(Aptera and Alata). Their distribution, host plants and seasonal occurrence are given. Name of their Natural enemies are also included.

Keywords

Homoptera, aphididae, macrosiphini, Aligarh