{"id":140,"date":"2015-04-06T02:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T02:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=140"},"modified":"2024-12-18T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T17:30:24","slug":"calaphis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=140","title":{"rendered":"Calaphis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Calaphis<\/em> Walsh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mention elsewhere that my strength in aphid biology and taxonomy is the subfamily Aphidinae.&nbsp; This genus, <em>Calaphis<\/em>, is the namesake of another large subfamily, Calaphidinae.&nbsp; These aphids are comparatively well-known and identifiable, due to their host plants being mostly trees (making the aphids more apparent than others) and due to very good taxonomic research by various authors such as F.W. Quednau, who I was lucky enough to correspond with for a couple decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Calaphis betulella<\/em> Walsh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was perhaps the first to notice <em>Calaphis betulella<\/em> living on the west coast.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Calaphis-Betula-Moses-vi-2010-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Calaphis-Betula-Moses-vi-2010-2-1024x656.jpg\" alt=\"Calaphis betulella alate vivipara from ornamental Betula nigra in central Washington.\" class=\"wp-image-143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Calaphis-Betula-Moses-vi-2010-2-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Calaphis-Betula-Moses-vi-2010-2-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Calaphis-Betula-Moses-vi-2010-2.jpg 1095w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Calaphis betulella alate vivipara from ornamental Betula nigra in central Washington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This species is known to live only on a birch native to eastern North America, <em>Betula nigra<\/em>. For the past several years I have known this aphid living on ornamental <em>B. nigra<\/em> in both Washington and Idaho. As often happens with introduced species, this aphid sometimes reaches very dense populations on trees growing in landscapes and parks. I am very happy with these photos of one of the prettiest aphids I&#8217;ve photographed.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Calaphis-Moses-x-2010-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"951\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Calaphis-Moses-x-2010-4.jpg\" alt=\"Calaphis betulella ovipara on Betula nigra in central Washington.\" class=\"wp-image-144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Calaphis-Moses-x-2010-4.jpg 951w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Calaphis-Moses-x-2010-4-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 951px) 100vw, 951px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Calaphis betulella ovipara on Betula nigra in central Washington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calaphis Walsh I mention elsewhere that my strength in aphid biology and taxonomy is the subfamily Aphidinae.&nbsp; This genus, Calaphis, is the namesake of another large subfamily, Calaphidinae.&nbsp; These aphids are comparatively well-known and identifiable, due to their host plants being mostly trees (making the aphids more apparent than others) and due to very good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions\/2293"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}