Brachycaudus cardui

TaxID: 224526

Basic Information

Brachycaudus cardui

Thistle Aphid, Thistle aphid

Brachycaudus cardui is a species of aphid, commonly known as the thistle aphid or the plum-thistle aphid. It infests trees in the genus Prunus in the spring and autumn, and mostly plants in the aster family in the summer.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Hemiptera

Aphididae

Brachycaudus

cardui

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) C. Mallory@BY-NC
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(c) unknown@CC0

Morphological Features

Apterae on herbaceous plants have a glossy black dorsal surface; the ventral side is light green to yellowish or reddish. Immatures are green or reddish.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (3 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Chile Quarantine pests 2019
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Peru Absent —

Distribution (37 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

37
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Canada Present —
Switzerland Present —
Democratic Republic of the Congo Present —
Czechia Present —
Germany Present —
Denmark Present —
Spain Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (2 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_974392485.1 Scaffold 435 17968 85034 -
FASTA
GCA_974392405.1 Chromosome 428 49729 84944 -
FASTA

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature