APHIDOIDEA
(aphids)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
ANOECIIDAE a family of aphids	Family			1 ident. refs
APHIDIDAE greenfly	Family	21 subtaxa	98 images	30 ident. refs
PEMPHIGIDAE a family of galling aphids	Family	1 subtaxa	1 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Superfamily	APHIDOIDEA (aphids)
Suborder	STERNORRHYNCHA (a suborder of bugs)
Order	HEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division	Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

APHIDOIDEA is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Blackman, R.L. & Eastop, V.F.	2006	Aphids on the World’s Herbaceous Plants and Shrubs - an identification and information guide	1439pp, John Wiley, New York
	Blackman, R.L. & Eastop, V.F.	2000	Aphids on the World’s Crops - an identification and information guide	2nd edition, 466pp, John Wiley, New York
	Blackman, R.L. & Eastop, V.F.	1994	Aphids on the World’s Trees - an identification and information guide	1012pp, CABI
()	Rotheray, G.E.	1989	Aphid Predators	Naturalists' Handbooks, 11, 77pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Plant Galls
	Anon.		British Galls

APHIDOIDEA (aphids) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 948 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for APHIDOIDEA (aphids)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

APHIDOIDEA is also a member of:

Identification Works

Plant Galls

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