Glasshouse-potato aphid

Description

The foxglove aphid, (Aulacorthum solani), also known as glasshouse-potato aphid, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants. It has one of the broadest host ranges of any aphid in the world, where they both hosts on dicots and monocots. It is known to be a major insect pest on tomato, peppers, tobacco, celery, carrots, tulip bulbs, cucurbits and legumes. Aulacorthum is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Aphididae. The genus was first described by Mordvilko in 1914. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.