Aphidomorpha

Aphidomorpha[1] is an infraorder within the insect order Sternorrhyncha which includes the aphids and their allies in the superfamilies Adelgoidea, Phylloxeroidea and Aphidoidea. This group also includes numerous fossil taxa of uncertain placement.

Aphidomorpha
Unidentified Aphidomorpha in Baltic amber
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Infraorder: Aphidomorpha
Bekker-Migdisova & Aizenberg, 1991
Superfamilies
  • Adelgoidea
    Schouteden, 1909
  • Aphidoidea
    Latreille, 1802
  • Genaphidoidea
    Handlirsch, 1908
  • Lutevanaphidoidea
    Szwedo, Lapeyrie & Nel, 2014
  • Naibioidea
    Shcherbakov, 2007
  • Palaeoaphidoidea
    Richards, 1966
  • Phylloxeroidea
    Herrich-Schaeffer, 1854
  • Tajmyraphidoidea
    Kononova, 1975
  • Triassoaphidoidea
    Heie, 1999

The treatment of the members in the group varies and the following variant treatments of the extant families can be found in literature.[2]

Aphidomorpha

Aphidoidea

Adelgoidea

Phylloxeroidea

Aphidomorpha
Aphidoidea

Aphididae

Adelgidae

Phylloxeridae

Aphidomorpha

Aphidoidea

Phylloxeroidea

Phylloxeridae

Adelgidae

References

  1. Bekker-Migdisova & Aizenberg (1991) In Rohdendorf [Ed.]. Fundamentals of Paleontology. Volume 9: Arthropoda, Tracheata, Chelicerata 267.
  2. Sorensen, J.T. (2009). "Aphids". In Resh, Vincent H.; Cardé, R.T. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Insects (2 ed.). Academic Press. pp. 27–31.


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