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Rice Root Aphid
Tetraneura akinire
The oriental grass root aphid (or rice root aphid), Tetraneura akinire, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants.
From the article Tetraneura akinire on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
Hosts alternate between elm leaves and roots of grasses and cereals.
The fundatrix (founding or stem mother) lays eggs in a leaf of the primary host, which are trees in the genus Ulmus. This stimulates production of galls where offspring of the fundatrix develop by feeding on host sap. These mature into winged adult alates, which complete the life cycle on the secondary host.
The species is thought to have originated in Asia, but now has spread to southern and south-east Europe and the United States.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
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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 907615.