{"id":200,"date":"2015-04-08T02:42:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T02:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2024-12-18T18:59:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T18:59:27","slug":"flabellomicrosiphum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=200","title":{"rendered":"Flabellomicrosiphum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Flabellomicrosiphum<\/em> Gillette &amp; Palmer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This page updated:&nbsp;December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a genus of two species that live on sagebrush in the west (<em>Artemisia<\/em>). I have fond memories of <em>F. tridentatae<\/em> because it was one of the first native aphid species I collected and identified while a student in Hermiston, Oregon.&nbsp; It seems likely to me that the two species placed in this genus should be considered as <em>Pleotrichophorus<\/em> with very short siphunculi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Flabellomicrosiphum knowltoni<\/em> Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a beautiful aphid living on sagebrush, <em>Artemisia tridentata<\/em>, apparently preferring the type of sagebrush often known as Wyoming sagebrush (sometimes considered a variety, sometimes a subspecies). It is one of many aphid species that use this plant, and like most of them, it likes to run. I was lucky to get this photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far I have samples from Oregon, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, North Dakota, and Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Flabellomicrosiphum-Moses-20-v-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"889\" src=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Flabellomicrosiphum-Moses-20-v-2011.jpg\" alt=\"Flabellomicrosiphum knowltoni aptera from central Washington.\" class=\"wp-image-203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Flabellomicrosiphum-Moses-20-v-2011.jpg 695w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Flabellomicrosiphum-Moses-20-v-2011-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flabellomicrosiphum knowltoni aptera from central Washington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Flabellomicrosiphum tridentatae <\/em>(Wilson<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted above, this is one of the first aphids I learned to collect when I was about 20 years old.&nbsp; It is locally common on big sagebrush (<em>Artemisia tridentata<\/em>), but it is interestingly absent from large swaths of this plant&#8217;s range.&nbsp;Sagebrushes are known to be diverse in terms of plant chemistry, and it is possible that such variability in the plant controls the insect&#8217;s distribution.&nbsp; I so far have specimens from Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Flabellomicrosiphum-tridentatae-Eagle-17-iv-2012.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-755\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Flabellomicrosiphum-tridentatae-Eagle-17-iv-2012.jpg\" alt=\"Flabellomicrosiphum tridentatae aptera from southern Idaho.\" class=\"wp-image-755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Flabellomicrosiphum-tridentatae-Eagle-17-iv-2012.jpg 450w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Flabellomicrosiphum-tridentatae-Eagle-17-iv-2012-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flabellomicrosiphum tridentatae aptera from southern Idaho.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flabellomicrosiphum Gillette &amp; Palmer This page updated:&nbsp;December 2024. This is a genus of two species that live on sagebrush in the west (Artemisia). I have fond memories of F. tridentatae because it was one of the first native aphid species I collected and identified while a student in Hermiston, Oregon.&nbsp; It seems likely to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":256,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions\/2308"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}