BUG for ID please

Toby · #1 (**permalink**) 20-09-2010, 08:31 AM

found on fence in Burnham Beeches yesterday

Acutipuerilis · #2 (**permalink**) 20-09-2010, 09:17 PM

What a gorgeous aphid... but I haven't a clue which one!

poschiavanus · #3 (**permalink**) 20-09-2010, 10:19 PM

Just, just, possibly the Giant Willow Aphid Tuberolachnus salignus, although it doesn't have a big dark bump on the dorsal midline.

See for instance Large willow aphid | Natural History Museum and Giant Willow Aphid - Tuberolachnus salignus - BugGuide.Net.

Toby · #4 (**permalink**) 20-09-2010, 11:07 PM

i've shot Giant Willow Aphids and they were always much darker than this bug and had a sort of horn on the back.

poschiavanus · #5 (**permalink**) 21-09-2010, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toby

i've shot Giant Willow Aphids ...

I know they're big, but that big!

Yeah, the one's I've seen have been darker and I noted the absence of the horn. So its back to the drawing board.

jaguarondi · #6 (**permalink**) 21-09-2010, 01:20 PM

I would guess at some species of Cinara (there are several inc. some lightish ones)

JRsbugs · #7 (**permalink**) 21-09-2010, 01:36 PM

It would help if we knew what type of trees were around it, was there any Pines?

Janet

JRsbugs · #8 (**permalink**) 21-09-2010, 01:53 PM

There is a Spotted Pine Aphid, Eulachnus agilis but the photos I found are not quite like yours. It does have spots, and looks similar, is also a Giant Aphid. Maybe a different stage?

Conifer aphids (Aphidoidea: Lachnidae) from central Finland

Bruce Williams · #9 (**permalink**) 21-09-2010, 06:54 PM

Interesting find Toby, I've certainly never seen anything like it (but I'd like to). I've photographed quite a few Giant Willow Aphids and I'm pretty sure this isn't one.

Could you maybe give us an indication of size?

Bruce