Prociphilus is an aphid genus of the subfamily Eriosomatinae, which cause the plants they attack to produce galls. The aphids reside and feed within the gall.
There are around 50 species in this genus.
The appearance of Prociphilus oriens is often said to presage the first snowfall in Hokkaido and Tohoku. Prociphilus oriens is commonly called , literally translating to "snow bug", in Japan.
Species These species belong to the genus Prociphilus:
Prociphilus americanus (Walker, 1852) Prociphilus aomoriensis (Matsumura, 1917) Prociphilus aurus Zhang & Qiao, 1997 Prociphilus baicalensis (Cholodkovsky, 1920) Prociphilus bumeliae (Schrank, 1801) Prociphilus carolinensis Smith, 1969 Prociphilus caryae (Fitch, 1856) Prociphilus chaenomelis Prociphilus cheni Tao, 1970 Prociphilus clerodendri Okamoto & Takahashi, 1927 Prociphilus cornifoliae Singh, Das & Raychaudhuri, 1977 Prociphilus corrugatans (Sirrine, 1894) Prociphilus crataegicola Shinji, 1922 Prociphilus crataegistrobi (Smith, 1969) Prociphilus dilonicerae Zhang, 1981 Prociphilus emeiensis Zhang, 1997 Prociphilus erigeronensis (Thomas, 1879) Prociphilus formosanus Takahashi, 1935 Prociphilus fraxini (Fabricius, 1777) Prociphilus fraxinifolii (Riley, 1879) Prociphilus gambosae Zhang & Zhang, 1993 Prociphilus ghanii Hille Ris Lambers, 1973 Prociphilus himalayaensis Chakrabarti, 1976 Prociphilus konoi Hori, 1938 Prociphilus kuwanai Monzen, 1927 Prociphilus laricis Shinji, 1941 Prociphilus ligustrifoliae (Tseng & Tao, 1938) Prociphilus longianus Smith, 1974 Prociphilus lonicerae Shinji, 1943 Prociphilus mexicanus Remaudière & Muñoz Viveros, 1985 Prociphilus micheliae Hille Ris Lambers, 1933 Prociphilus oleae (Leach, 1826) Prociphilus oriens Mordvilko, 1935 Prociphilus osmanthae Essig & Kuwana, 1918 Prociphilus pergandei Smith, 1974 Prociphilus piceaerubensis (Smith, 1969) Prociphilus pini (Burmeister, 1835) Prociphilus piniradicivorus Smith, 1969 Prociphilus probosceus Sanborn, 1904 Prociphilus sasakii Monzen, 1927 Prociphilus take (Shinji, 1922) Prociphilus taukogi Prociphilus taxus (Ghosh, Chakrabarti, Chowdhuri & Raychaudhuri, 1969) Prociphilus tessellatus (Fitch, 1851) (woolly alder aphid) Prociphilus trinus Zhang, 1997 Prociphilus umarovi Prociphilus ushikoroshi Shinji, 1924 Prociphilus vesicalis (Rudow, 1875) Prociphilus xylostei (De Geer, 1773)
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