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Adelgids
Adelgidae
The Adelgidae is a small family of the Hemiptera closely related to the aphids, and often traditionally included in the Aphidoidea with the Phylloxeridae. Adelgids are often known as "woolly conifer aphids". The family is composed of species associated with pine, spruce, or other conifers, known respectively as "pine aphids" or "spruce aphids". This family includes the former family Chermesidae, or "Chermidae", the name of which was declared invalid by the ICZN in 1955. There is...
6 branches of this family, most-observed first
Adelges
genusAdelges
Pineus
genusPineus
Gilletteella
genusGilletteella
Eopineus
genusEopineus
Cholodkovskya
genusCholodkovskya
Cnaphalodes
genusCnaphalodes
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61515.