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Aphidoidea
Aphids, also known as plant lice and in Britain and the Commonwealth as greenflies, blackflies, or whiteflies (not to be confused with "jumping plant lice" or true whiteflies), are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Many species are green, but other commonly occurring species may be white and wooly, brown, or black. Aphids are among the most destructive insect pests on cultivated plants in temperate regions. They are capable of extremely rapid increase...
8 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Aphids
familyAphididae
Bajsaphididae
familyBajsaphididae
Canadaphididae
familyCanadaphididae
Cretamyzidae
familyCretamyzidae
Drepanochaitophoridae
familyDrepanochaitophoridae
Oviparosiphidae
familyOviparosiphidae
Parvaverrucosidae
familyParvaverrucosidae
Sinaphididae
familySinaphididae
Where it lives
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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 52380.