Aphid Taxon Community

Maintaining a dynamic and comprehensive site requires the involvement of many contributors: first and foremost, the original authors for whom the site is named.

Colin Favret is the primary editor and executes the corrections and additions to the site.

2025

Juan Manuel Nieto Nafría provided summaries of many recent articles and suggested edits to AWP pages.

Shalva Barjadze and Andrey Stekolshchikov and Shin-ichi Akimoto provided edits to keys, including the incorporation of new taxa.

Catherine Hébert corrected countless formatting errors incurred during the initial 2023 update to the site. She also inserted URLs from the endpoints of the dichotomous keys to the species entries on the aphids pages.

2024

Juan Manuel Nieto Nafría provided summaries of many recent articles and suggested edits to AWP pages in consequence to taxonomic changes. Most importantly, he provided data edits for the many articles published in the 2022 special issue of Zootaxa (5183(1)) dedicated to the memory of Roger Blackman. He also suggested a number of important edits to several pages.

Andrey Stekolshchikov also provided summaries of recent articles and Mohsen Mehrparvar caught several long-standing errors.