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Eriosoma lanigerum
| Woolly apple aphid | |
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| Woolly aphids on an apple tree branch. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Aphididae |
| Subfamily: | Eriosomatinae |
| Genus: | Eriosoma |
| Species: | E. lanigerum
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| Binomial name | |
| Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann, 1802)
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| Synonyms | |
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Eriosoma lanigerum, the woolly apple aphid, woolly aphid or American blight,[1] is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants.[2][3]
- ^ "Woolly Aphid". Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ^ Sandanayaka, WR; Bus, VG (2005). "Evidence of sexual reproduction of woolly apple aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum, in New Zealand". J. Insect Sci. 5: 27. doi:10.1093/jis/5.1.27. PMC 1615234. PMID 17119609.
- ^ Wearing, CH; Attfield, BA; Colhoun, K. (2010). "Biological control of woolly apple aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann), during transition to integrated fruit production for pipfruit in Central Otago, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science. 38 (4): 255–273. doi:10.1080/01140671.2010.524189. S2CID 85286043.
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