The plant-sucking bugs known as aphids include many important pests of agriculture, horticulture and forestry, and also play a major part in natural food-chains. This website integrates and fully updates the information in the above books to provide host plant lists and keys as well as a systematic account of the world’s aphids.
CONTENTS OF WEBSITE
| Preface to 1994 book Preface to 2006 book | HOST LISTS AND KEYS Please read the notes on the use of this section before continuing. – The Host Plant-Aphid Lists – The Keys – Morphology and Key Characters | THE APHIDS – Systematic treatment of aphid genera – Regionally classified faunal works | BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| INTRODUCTION – The association between aphids and their host plants – Life cycles and polymorphism | KEY TO POLYPHAGOUS APHIDS | TECHNIQUES – Collecting methods – Preservation and mounting – Labelling and storage | INDEX TO SPECIES NAMES OF APHIDS |
A major advantage of having this information on the internet is that it will be possible to update it frequently, to correct the inevitable errors, and to take account of any suggestions for improvement received from users of the site. We therefore welcome all e-mail comments on the content of the site, and would also appreciate receiving pdfs of any newly published papers in the field of aphid taxonomy and biosystematics.
Roger Blackman was the primary author and curator of this website for many years, and first author of the two books that formed its original basis. Roger died in 2022. Victor Eastop, the main inspiration behind the “Aphids on the World’s Plants” books and their second author, died in 2012. This web site is dedicated to their memory.
Victor Eastop 1924-2012 – An Appreciation ––– Roger Blackman 1941–2022 – An Appreciation
APHIDS – THE CLONING EXPERTS Four articles on aphid parthenogenesis.
- THE MASTERS OF CLONING
- CHARLES BONNET AND HIS “DANAE” – the discovery of parthenogenesis
- EGGS and EMBRYOS – how aphids develop without sex
- THE SECOND HALF OF THE CHESSBOARD
Don’t forget that fully updated taxonomic information about aphids is available at https://aphid.speciesfile.org.
