Prunus avium, England, East Sussex, Beckley Wood © Bob Dransfield & Bob Brightwell, InfluentialPoints

Prunus avium, Dronten; leaf nest at the end of a shoot © Arnold Grosscurt

Prunus sp., Enter © Arnold Grosscurt

gall

Apterae 2-3 mm, colonies in dense bunches of curled leaves at the tip of the branches. Often attended by ants.

host plants

Rosaceae, monophagous

Prunus avium, cerasus, domestica, padus, persica, serrulata, spinosa, subhirtella.

notes

The impact of the aphids varies with the hot plant. In P. cerasus and serrulata there is hardly any galling, while deformations are very strong in P. avium.

mainly on Rubiaceae, Plantaginaceae, Orobanchaceae, secondary host plants

secondary host plants

Rubiaceae, Plantaginaceae, Orobanchaceae etc., polyphagous

Asperula; Euphrasia stricta; Galium aparine, lucidum, mollugo, odoratum, pseudoaristatum, verum; Rhinanthus; Veronica beccabunga, montana.

synonyms

Myzus cerasi pruniavium; Myzus pruniavium Börner, 1926; Aphis cerasi: Houard, 1908?. Also Myzus alecterolophi Heinze, 1961, described from Rhinanthus alectorolophus, probably is conspecific with cerasi.

notes

DNA-studies have shown that the population that live on Prunus avium as their primary host may be distinguished as a separate subspecies: Myzus cerasi pruniavium.

references

Barbagallo, Binazzi, Pennacchio & Pollini (2011a), Barbagallo & Massimino Cocuzza (2014a), Barbagallo & Pollini (2014a), Barjadze, Japoshvili, Karaca & Özdemir (2014a), Blackman & Eastop (2014), Börner & Franz (1956a), Buga & Stekolshchikov (2012a), Cogolludo (1921a), Coulianos & Holmåsen (1991a), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Durak, Durak & Borowiak-Sobkowiak (0000a, 2011a), Flügel (2016a), Heie (1994a), Hellrigl (2004a), Houard (1908a), Kollár (2007a, 2011a), Koops (2013a), Lambinon, Carbonnelle & Claerebout (2015a), Lambinon & Schneider (2004a), Lampel (1988a), Lampel & Meier (2007a), Mier Durante & Nieto Nafría (1983a), Nieto Nafría, Muñoz Martínez & Mier Durante (1987a), Osiadacz & Wojciechowski (2008a), Pérez Hidalgo, Martínez Peláez & Nieto Nafría (2001a), Petrović (1998a), Rakauskas & Trukšinaitė (2011a), Ripka, Reider & Szalay-Marzsó (1998a), Stănescu (2009a), Suay Cano & González Funes (1998b), Sylvén (1960a), Tambs-Lyche (1970a), Tavares (1905a), Tomasi (2014a), Weis (1955a), Wojciechowski, Depa, Halgoš ao (2016a).