Chaitophorus salicti (Schrank, 1801)
sallow leaf-vein aphid
on Salix

Salix cinerea, England, Cumbria, Abbots Wood © Bob Dransfield & Bob Brightwell, InfluentialPoints: summer aspect
Salix caprea, Hungary, Budapest, Hűvösvölgy, 23.v.2017 © László Érsek
the leaves are hardly malformed
apterae with larvae
aptera (spring form)
laeval alatae
alate
Salix caprea, Hungary, Budapest, 19.vii.2019 © László Érsek
aptera, summer form
Salix triandra, Hungary, Mosonmagyaróvár, 16.vii.2019 © László Érsek
aptera, summer form
gall
Apterae 1-2 mm, hairy, with short, stump-like siphunculi. In spring the aphids are black with a vague pale median line; in late summer they are yellowish white with reddish brown to dark grey markings. At the underside of the leaves, close to the midrib or heavy lateral veins; sometimes they are attended by ants.
host plants
Salicaceae, narrowly monophagous
Salix aurita, caprea, cinerea.
Less often also S. aegyptiaca, alba, apennina, daphnoides, gmelinii, triandra, viminalis.
synonyms
Pseudomicrella salicti.
references
Barbagallo & Massimino Cocuzza (2014a), Barbagallo & Pollini (2014a), Blackman & Eastop (2014), Börner & Franz (1956a), Buhr (1965a), Danielsson (1974a), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a[“saliceti”]), Heie (1982a), Hellrigl (2004a), Lampel & Meier (2003a), Mier Durante, Seco Fernández & Nieto Nafría (1989a), Osiadacz & Wojciechowski (2008a), Ripka, Reider & Szalay-Marzsó (1998a), Stroyan (1977a), Szelegiewicz (1961a, 1982b), Tambs-Lyche & Heie (1994a), Wieczorek & Osiadacz (2007a), Wojciechowski, Depa, Halgoš ao (2016a).