aphid

English

Etymology

From New Latin aphis (plural aphides), coined by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. His inspiration for the name remains unclear. OED suggests a connection to Ancient Greek ἀφειδής (apheidḗs, “unsparing, lavishly borrowed”) in reference to the insects' voracity or rapid rate of production, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + φείδομαι (pheídomai, “to spare, be thrifty, be merciful”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). Doublet of aphis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.fɪd/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.fɪd/

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Noun

aphid (plural aphids)

1. A sap-sucking insect pest of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.

Derived terms

• almond aphid
• aphicide
• aphidian
• aphidicide
• aphidicolin
• aphidid
• aphidiine
• aphidine
• aphidious
• aphidivorous
• aphidlike
• aphid lion
• aphid midge (Aphidoletes aphidimyza)
• aphidoid
• aphidology
• aphidomorph
• aphidophagous, aphidophagy
• aphidozer
• aphid wolf
• aphiophilous
• apple aphid (Aphis pomi)
• apple-grass aphid
• apple root aphid
• artichoke root aphid
• asparagus aphid
• balsam twig aphid (Mindarus abietinus)
• bean aphid
• beech blight aphid (Grylloprociphilus imbricator)
• beet leaf aphid
• bird-cherry aphid
• black bean aphid (Aphis fabae)
• black cherry aphid (Myzus cerasi)
• black citrus aphid
• black currant aphid
• black peach aphid
• box elder aphid
• brown citrus aphid
• brown peach aphid
• brown pear aphid
• buckthorn aphid
• cabbage aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae)
• carrot aphid
• cereal leaf aphid
• cherry aphid (Myzus cerasi)
• clove aphid
• corn leaf aphid
• corn root aphid
• cotton aphid
• cowpea aphid
• currant aphid
• currant-sowthistle aphid
• damson-hop aphid
• English grain aphid
• foxglove aphid
• fringed orchid aphid
• gall aphid
• glasshouse and potato aphid
• gooseberry aphid
• grain aphid
• green apple aphid
• green artichoke aphid
• green citrus aphid
• green peach aphid
• green spruce aphid
• groundnut aphid
• hazelnut aphid
• hop aphid
• large hazel aphid
• larger peach aphid
• leaf aphid
• leaf-curling plum aphid
• lettuce aphid
• lettuce root aphid
• mealy aphid
• mealy plum aphid (Hyalopterus pruni)
• melon and cotton aphid
• melon aphid
• mustard aphid
• oleander aphid
• orange aphid
• ornate aphid (Myzus ornatus)
• pale chrysanthemum aphid
• pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum)
• peach aphid
• pear bark aphid
• pear bedstraw aphid
• pear grass aphid
• pear-grass aphid
• permanent currant aphid
• pine aphid, pine leaf aphid (Pineus pinifoliae)
• pine bark aphid (Pineus strobi)
• plum-thistle aphid
• poplar petiole gall aphid
• poplar vagabond aphid (Mordwilkoja vagabundus)
• poplat spiral gall aphid
• potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae)
• rose aphid (Macrosiphum rosae)
• rose-grain aphid
• rosy apple aphid, rosy aphid (Dysaphis plantaginea)
• Russian wheat aphid
• rusty plum aphid
• shallot aphid
• slaty gray aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae)
• small walnut aphid
• soybean aphid
• spinach aphid
• spiraea aphid, spirea aphid
• spotted alfalfa aphid
• spruce aphid (Elatobium abietinum)
• spruce gall aphid (Adelges spp.)
• strawberry aphid (Chaetosiphon fragaefolii)
• strawberry root aphid
• sugar beet root aphid
• thistle aphid
• tobacco aphid
• turnip aphid
• violet aphid (Myzus ornatus)
• walnut aphid
• wheat aphid
• white pine aphid (Cinara strobi)
• willow aphid (Pterochlorus salignus)
• witch-hazel cone gall aphid (Hormaphis hamamelidis)
• woolly alder aphid
• woolly aphid (Eriosomatinae spp.)
• woolly apple aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum)
• woolly beech aphid (Phyllaphis fagi)
• yellow clover aphid
• yellow sugarcane aphid

 

Related terms

• aphidid
• aphidine
• aphidoid
• aphis
• aphidomorph

Translations

insect

• Albanian: mushicë (sq) f
• Arabic: مَنّ (ar) m (mann) (collective), مَنَّة f (manna) (singulative)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: тля f (tlja)
• Bulgarian: листна въшка (listna vǎška)
• Catalan: afídid m, pugó m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蚜 (zh) (yá), 蚜蟲 / 蚜虫 (zh) (yáchóng)

• Czech: mšice (cs) f
• Danish: bladlus c
• Dutch: bladluis (nl) f
• Esperanto: afido
• Estonian: lehetäi
• Finnish: kirva (fi)
• French: puceron (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Blattlaus (de) f
• Greek: αφίδα (el) f (afída), μελίγκρα (el) f (melígkra)
• Hebrew: כנימה (he) f (knimá)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: levéltetű (hu)
• Icelandic: blaðlús (is) f
• Ido: afidio (io)
• Irish: aifid f
• Italian: afide (it) m
• Japanese: 油虫 (ja) (アブラムシ, aburamushi)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ចៃ (km) (cay)
• Korean: 진딧물 (jindinmul)
• Kumyk: сияла (siyala)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sipiya riwekan

• Latin: lens olerum
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: ãmaras m (3^b)
• Macedonian: ли́сна во́шка f (lísna vóška)
• Malay: afid, kutu daun
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: kuturiki, ngō, weo
• Navajo: nahachagii biyázhí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bladlus m or f

• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Ottoman Turkish: پیره (pire)
• Persian: شته (fa) (šate)
• Polish: mszyca (pl) f
• Portuguese: pulgão (pt) m, afídeo m
• Romanian: afidă (ro) f, afide pl
• Russian: тля (ru) f (tlja)
• Serbo-Croatian: lisna uš f

  Cyrillic: лисна ваш f

  Roman: lisna vaš (sh) f

• Slovak: mšica f
• Slovene: listna uš f
• Spanish: áfido m, pulgón (es) m
• Swedish: bladlus (sv)
• Tagalog: dapulak
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เพลี้ย (plíia)
• Turkish: yaprak biti (tr)
• Ukrainian: тля f (tlja), попели́ця f (popelýcja)
• Vietnamese: rệp vừng
• Volapük: faid
• Welsh: llysleuen f, llyslau f pl

See also

• blackfly
• greenfly
• jumping plant louse
• whitefly