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  14. ›Cupressobium
Cypress Aphid
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Cypress Aphid

Cinara cupressi

Cinara cupressi (or the cypress aphid) is a brownish soft-bodied aphid. It sucks sap out of giant conifers, and can cause damage to the tree, ranging from discoloring of the affected twig to the death of the tree. It is an invasive species and is in the world's 100 most invasive species along with being invasive in Africa and Europe.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 199396.