Kaltenbachiella ulmifusa

Family: Aphididae | Genus: Kaltenbachiella
Detachable: integral
Color: yellow, green
Texture: hairy
Abundance:
Shape: spindle
Season: Summer
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls: thin
Location: upper leaf, leaf midrib
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Slippery elm gall aphid
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Name
Notes
Gobaishia ulmifusus
Pemphigus fusus
Pemphigus ulmi-fusus

Aphids on the world's plants

Kaltenbachiella ulmifusa (Walsh & Riley)

Galls on Ulmus rubra are large, spindle-shaped, bag-like, about 2.5 cm long, green when young and becoming straw-coloured when mature, projecting upward from mid-rib of leaf (fig. 134I and Patch 1910b). Emigrant alatae, BL 1.4-1.5 mm, with media either unbranched or once-branched, leave galls in June-July to found colonies on roots of Lamiaceae; successful transfers were made to Lycopus virginicus (Smith 1985). Apterous exules are yellowish orange with wax-wool (C.F. Smith, pers. comm.); BL unrecorded. Distributed throughout the range of U. rubra in North America, and recently reported (on Ulmus) in China (Jiang et al. 2004).

- Roger Blackman, Victor Eastop: (2013) Aphids on the world's plants©

Reference: http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/d_APHIDS_K.htm#Kaltenbachiella


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