Aphidomorpha is an infraorder within the insect order
Sternorrhyncha
The Sternorrhyncha suborder of the Hemiptera contains the aphids, whiteflies, and scale insects, groups which were traditionally included in the now-obsolete order "Homoptera". "Sternorrhyncha" refers to the rearward position of the mouthparts re ...
which includes the
aphids
Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Common names include greenfly and blackfly, although individuals within a species can vary widely in color. The group includes the fluffy white woolly aphids. A t ...
and their allies in the superfamilies
Adelgoidea
The Adelgidae are a small family of the Hemiptera closely related to the aphids, and often included in the Aphidoidea with the Phylloxeridae or placed within the superfamily Phylloxeroidea as a sister of the Aphidoidea within the infraorder Aph ...
,
Phylloxeroidea
The PhylloxeroideaHerrich-Schaeffer (1854) In Koch. ''Vorwort des Herausgebers. Die Pflanzenläuse Aphiden getreu nach dem Leben abgebildet und beschrieben, Verlag von J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg'' 1:III-VIII is a small superfamily of the Hemiptera ...
and
Aphidoidea. This group also includes numerous fossil taxa of uncertain placement, such as these other superfamilies
Triassoaphidoidea ,
Genaphidoidea,
Palaeoaphidoidea, and
Tajmyraphidoidea.
The treatment of the members in the group varies and the following variant treatments of the extant families can be found in literature.
References
External links
Aphid species file
Sternorrhyncha
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