Image Number: 5364171

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Damage
Description:
Damage to seedheads of wheat caused by the Russian wheat aphid (Diuraphis noxia) - awns are trapped in the seedheads on damaged plants.
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Laboratory

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Subject

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Aphidoidea
Family: Aphididae
Subfamily: Aphidinae
Tribe: Macrosiphini
Genus: Diuraphis
Subject: Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov, 1913)

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Triticum
Subject: Triticum aestivum L.
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Image uploaded:
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Image last updated:
Thursday, March 20, 2008