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Catalogue of Life : AphidSF

Full name:	Aphid Species File UPDATED!
Short name:	AphidSF
Version:	5.0, Dec 2016
Release date:	2016-11-29
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	5,218
Number of living infraspecific taxa	575
Number of extinct species:	313
Number of extinct infraspecific taxa:	0
Number of synonyms:	8,743
Number of common names:	119
Total number of names:	14,968
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. (2017). AphidSF: Aphid Species File (version 5.0, Dec 2016). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.