Identification file

Identification file

Crypturaphis grassii Silvestri 1935

2.2-3.0 mm

Apterous: almost round, flat, yellow streaked with brown
Antennae very short (1)
Frontal tubercles highly developed into a fan shape (2)
Abdomen  yellow striped with brown (3)

Crypturaphis grassi : fiche d'identification
Crypturaphis grassi © Encyclop'Aphid

Alate: yellow with dorsal patch
Antennae very short with 5 segments (4) deformed by presence of rhinaria
Head with prominent frontal tubercles (5)
Eyes borne by a forward-protruding peduncle (6)
Pronotum with broad lateral expansions (7)
Abdomen with dorsal patch developed to varying degrees (8)

Species file