Cereal aphid

Weight

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Lifespan

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Main food

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Habitat

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Young per litter or clutch

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Conservation status

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Countries on record

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No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumArthropoda
3. classInsecta
4. orderHemiptera
5. familyAphididae
6. genusRhopalosiphum
7. SpeciesRhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Amnraphis padi, Anuraphis helichrysi, Anuraphis padi, Aphis avenae-sativae, Aphis avenaesativae, Aphis holci, Aphis padi, Aphis pruni, Aphis prunifoliae, Aphis prunifolii, Aphis pseudoavenae, Aphis sativae, Aphis tritici, Aphis uwamizusakurae, Brachycaudus helichrysi, Myzus prunifoliae, Padifex padi, Rhopalosiphon padi, Rhopalosiphon prunifoliae, Rhopalosiphon pseudo-avenae, Rhopalosiphon sativa, Rhopalosiphum crategus-coccinea, Rhopalosiphum pseudoavenae, Rhopalosiphum tritici, Siphocoryne acericola, Siphocoryne donarium, Siphocoryne fraxinicola, Siphonaphis americana, Siphonaphis padi, Siphonaphis padi americana

Catalogue of Life

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  Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7
• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
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• Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
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• EltonTraits 1.0: species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
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• Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
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@misc{cereal_aphid_2026,
  title = {Cereal aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cereal-aphid},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}