Identification file

Identification file

Hyperomyzus lactucae (Linnaeus, 1758)

2.0-2.7 mm

Apterous: yellowish green, glossy
Frons sinuate (1)
Antennae light, shorter than length of body but processus terminalis long (2)
Abdomen light-coloured (3)
Cornicles quite strongly swollen in middle (4)
Cauda digitate and light-coloured (5)

Hyperomyzus lactucae : fiche d'identification
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Alate: green with dark abdominal patch, head and thorax dark
Frons sinuate
Antennae long and dark with numerous rhinaria on segments III, IV and V (6), finishing in a long processus terminalis (7)
Abdomen with patch trapezoid, indented on sides and pierced by two large apertures (8), marginal (9) and post-cornicular (10) sclerites present
Cornicles swollen and slightly pigmented (11)
Cauda pale, digitate (12)
Legs dark at articulations

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