Pentalonia nigronervosa, the banana aphid, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap mainly from Musa species.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Aphididae |
| Genus: | Pentalonia |
| Species: | P. nigronervosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Pentalonia nigronervosa (Coquerel, 1859)
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Host plants edit
Also known to infest Alpinia purpurata, Xanthosoma sp., cardamom, Heliconia sp., tomatoes, taro, Calla, Costus, and Zingiber sp.[1]
References edit
- ^ Wright, Mark. "Pentalonia nigronervosa". Knowledge Master. University of Hawaiʻi. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
External links edit
- http://aphid.aphidnet.org/Pentalonia_nigronervosa.php
- http://nature.berkeley.edu/~rodrigoalmeida/Lab%20page/papers/Robson07.pdf
- http://canacoll.org/Hemip/Staff/Foottit/PDFs/Pentalonia2010.pdf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150225172433/http://www.agri.huji.ac.il/mepests/PentaloniaNigronervosa.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150225172433/http://www.ppo.ir/Uploads/English/Articles/insect/Banana-aphid-Pentalonia-nigronervosa.pdf
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