Pterocomma pilosum Buckton, 1879willow-bark aphid
on Salix
willow-bark aphid
on Salix
Salix aurita/cinerea, UK © Bob Dransfield & Bob Brightwell, InfluentialPoints
parasiet
Apterae on the young woody shoots. Characteristic are the cylindrical yellow siphunculi. They are well visited by ants.
host plants
Salicaceae, monophagous
Salix alba, apennina, appendiculata, aurita, babylonica, x blanda, caprea, cinerea & subsp. oleifolia, daphnoides & subsp. acutifolia, eleagnos, x fragilis, gmelinii, ? myrsinifolia, pedicellata, purpurea, repens, triandra, viminalis.
Ripka ao mention a find on Populus x berolinensis.
notes
Pterocomma konoi Hori, 1939 is often, but not by all authors, considered a subspecies of P. pilosum. Mixed colonies are found not infrequently.
references
Barbagallo, Binazzi, Pennacchio & Pollini (2011a), Barbagallo & Massimino Cocuzza (2014a), Barbagallo & Pollini (2014a), Blackman & Eastop (2017), Börner & Franz (1956a), Influential Points (2017), Heie (1986a), Hellrigl (2004a), Krzywiec (1982a), Laamari, Coeur d’Acier & Jousselin (2013a), Lampel & Meier (2003a), Mier Durante & Nieto Nafría (1981a, 1997a), Nieto Nafría, Mier Durante, Binazzi & Pérez Hidalgo (2002a), Nieto Nafría, Muñoz Martínez & Mier Durante (1987a), Osiadacz & Wojciechowski (2008a), Pérez Hidalgo, Martínez Peláez & Nieto Nafría (2001a), Petrović (1998a), Ripka, Reider & Szalay-Marzsó (1998a), Stekolshchikov, Gavrilyuk & Novgorodova (2008a), Suay Cano & González Funes (1998c), Tambs-Lyche & Heie (1984a), Wojciechowski, Depa, Halgoš ao (2016a).