Database details : Aphid Species File
| Database qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 99% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | Aphid Species File UPDATED! |
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| Short name: | AphidSF |
| Version: | 5.0/5.0, Dec 2015 |
| Release date: | 2015-12-02 |
| Authors/editors: | Favret C. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Hemiptera - superfamilies Aphidoidea, Phylloxeroidea (infraorder Aphidomorpha) |
| English name of the group: | Aphids and allied groups |
| Number of living species | 5,191 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 564 |
| Number of extinct species: | 312 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 8,551 |
| Number of common names: | 118 |
| Total number of names: | 14,736 |
| Abstract: | Aphid Species File is an on-line taxonomic, nomenclatural, and bibliographic database of the aphids and allied groups of the world, extinct and extant. It contains over 11,000 names, of which over 5,000 are valid species. It contains over 40,000 literature citations from over 1,500 literature references. The content is authored by Colin Favret on Species File Software developed by David Eades. |
| Organization: | AphidNet, LLC |
| Website: |
http://aphid.speciesfile.org |
| Bibliographic citation: | Favret C. (2025). AphidSF: Aphid Species File (version 5.0/5.0, Dec 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2016 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2016. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |