Rice root aphid

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Main food

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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 rufiabdominale (Sasaki, 1899)

Synonyms Anuraphis mume, Aphis splendens, Aresha setigera, Aresha shelkovnikovi, Aresha shellsovnikoui, Aresna setigera, Aresna shelkovniskovi, Brachycaudus mume, Cerosipha california, Cerosipha californica, Pseudocerosipha pruni, Rhopalosiphon annuae, Rhopalosiphon splendens, Rhopalosiphum avenae, Rhopalosiphum fucanoi, Rhopalosiphum gnaphalii, Rhopalosiphum gnaphsli, Rhopalosiphum prunifoliae, Rhopalosiphum rufiabominale, Rhopalosiphum subterraneum, Siphocoryne splendens, Toxoptera rufiabdominalis, Yamataphis oryzae, Yamataphis papaveri, Yamataphis papaversi, Yamataphis rufiabdominalis

Catalogue of Life

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@misc{rice_root_aphid_2026,
  title = {Rice root aphid (Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/rice-root-aphid},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}