Aphids fauna (Aphidoidea: Hemiptera) and their host association of Al Bahah Province, Saudi Arabia
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https://doi.org/10.65139/8evgr918Keywords:
Aphids, Aphidoidea, biodiversity, Al Bahah Province, host plantsAbstract
Aphid habitats are aplenty in the Al Bahah Province, Saudi Arabia because of the abundance of native and introduced plants there and the region's moderate temperature. But no prior surveys of aphids from the province have been conducted. Fifty-five aphid species from 30 genera were identified. Six aphid species namely, Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas, 1878), Brachycaudus rumexicolens (Patch, 1917), Uroleucon sonchi (Linnaeus, 1767), Brachycaudus helichrysi (Kaltenbach, 1843) and Myzus persicae (Sulzer, 1776) were the most prevalent aphid species according to the quantity of samples gathered. In this research, 102 species of host plants for aphids were identified, comprising 82 genera. The most frequent aphid hosts plant during the recent findings were species of the Asteraceae, Chenopodiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Poaceae, and Solanaceae families. Aphid species varied from one to six in number per plant host species. There is a key provided for identifying the different kinds of aphids in KSA.
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