Species Hyalopterus pruni (Geoffroy, 1762)
Mealy Plum Aphid
- Aphis pruni Geoffroy, E.L. 1762. Histoire abregée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. Paris : Durand Vol. 1 viii 523 pp. pls 1-10 [497].
Type data:
Status unknown, no specimens extant, ?Europe.
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IBRA
Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder (associated flora: Prunus spp. [ROSACEAE]; Phragmites communis Trin. [POACEAE]).
Extra Ecological Information
On Phragmites communis in Australia; elsewhere alternating between Prunus and Phragmites.
General References
Blackman, R.L. & Eastop, V.F. 2000. Aphids on the World's Crops. An Identification and Information Guide. Chichester : Wiley x, 466 pp. [280]
Eastop, V.F. 1966. A taxonomic study of Australian Aphidoidea (Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 399-592 [489]
Remaudière, G. & Remaudière, M. 1997. Catalogue des Aphididae du monde. Paris : INRA 473 + [3] pp. [60] (list five species-group synonyms)
Common Name References
Naumann, I.D. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Common Insect Names. Melbourne : CSIRO pp. 1-200 [147] (Mealy Plum Aphid)
