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Identification & Distribution:Uroleucon hypochoeridis is a large pinkish-grey aphid with pale legs that are darkened towards the apices of the segments. Abdominal hairs are placed on scleroites and the crescent-shaped antesiphuncular sclerites are prominent. The coxae are dusky or dark, darker than the basal parts of femora. The cauda is pale usually with about 17 hairs. The apical segment of the rostrum is rarely longer than segment 2 of the hind tarsus (0.84-1.08 times its length). Uroleucon hypochoeridis nymphs are grey with a reddish-pink suffusion around the bases of the siphunculi.
The clarified slide mounts below are of adult viviparous female Uroleucon hypochoeridis : wingless, and winged.
Micrographs of clarified mounts The large cat's ear aphid lives on the stems of cat's ear (Hypochoeris radicata), autumn hawkbit (Leontodon autumnalis) and related species.
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