Potato aphid

Weight

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Length

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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. genusMacrosiphum
7. SpeciesMacrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas, 1878)

Synonyms Acyrthosiphon solanifolii, Acyrtosiphon solanifolii, Illinoia cucurbitae, Illinoia solanifolii, Illinoia tulipae, Macrosiphon citrifolii, Macrosiphum ascelpiadis, Macrosiphum asclepiadifolii, Macrosiphum cucurbitae, Macrosiphum euphobiae, Macrosiphum immaculata, Macrosiphum koehleri, Macrosiphum soba, Macrosiphum sobae, Macrosiphum solanifoli, Macrosiphum solanifolii, Myzus lycopersica, Myzus lycopersici, Nectarophora asclepiadis, Nectarophora citrifolii, Nectarophora cucurbitae, Nectarophora euphorbiae, Nectarophora euphorbicola, Nectarophora heleniella, Nectarophora lycopersici, Nectarophora solanifolii, Nectarophora tabaci, Nectarophora tulipae, Siphonophora citrifolii, Siphonophora cucurbitae, Siphonophora euphorbiae, Siphonophora euphorbicola, Siphonophora immaculata, Siphonophora solanifolii, Siphonophora tulipae, Uroleucon aquaviridae

Catalogue of Life

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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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• Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
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@misc{potato_aphid_2026,
  title = {Potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/potato-aphid},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}