Updated Checklist of Food Plants of Macrosiphini(Aphididae:
Hemiptera) in India-3
Garima Singh1,Rajendra Singh2*
Citation :Garima Singh,Rajendra Singh, Updated Checklist of Food Plants of Macrosiphini (Aphididae: Hemiptera) in India-3 International Journal of Research Studies in Zoology 2017,3(2) : 1-31
The Macrosiphini is one of the 2 tribes of the subfamily Aphidinae (Aphididae: Hemiptera) containing about 2166 species/subspecies assigned to 242 genera. Out of these, only 96 genera and 374 species are recorded from India infesting hundreds of plant species belonging to several families. The food plants of Indian Macrosiphini is catalogued alphabetically (aphid species-wise) in three parts. In this contribution, food plants of only 33 genera and 117 species of aphids belonging to the tribe Macrosiphini (Nasonovia to Xenosiphonaphis) are catalogued. These aphids feed on 392 plant species belonging to 80 families. Most suffered families are Asteraceae (74 species) followed by Poaceae (64 species), Rosaceae (26 species), Orchidaceae (18 species), Lamiaceae (17 species) and Polygonaceae (14 species). Among them, several species are crops of agricultural and horticultural importance. The update checklist of food plants of rest of Macrosiphini will be dealt in successive articles.