Species Information
Body length 1.2-2.6 mm. This well-marked aphid is typically shining nearly white or pale yellow to bright green. Dark thoracic cross bands and a dark horseshoe shape on the abdomen make for quite an attactive aphid.
A very polyphagous aphid feeding on a wide variety of plants, and can be a pest on glasshouse crops and ornamental plants. It has no sexual stage in its life cycle.
Appear to be under recorded, but is most likely common and widespread. A non-native species but now established in Britain.
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Insecta (Insects)
Hemiptera (True Bugs)
Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)
Aphididae (Aphids)
Aulacorthum
Aulacorthum (Neomyzus) circumflexum (Buckton, 1876)
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