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Species Aphis (Aphis) nerii Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1841

Oleander Aphid

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Also Pacific.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory
    • Queensland
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria
  • New Zealand

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Gomphocarpus fruticosus (L.) W.T.Aiton [APOCYNACEAE] Narrowleaf Cottonbush; Calotropis procera (Aiton) R.Br. ex W.T.Aiton [APOCYNACEAE] Rubber Tree; Nerium oleander Linnaeus [APOCYNACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Calotropis procera, Gomphorocarpus fruticosus and Nerium oleander in Australia; various Asclepiadaceae, Euphorbiaceae and others elsewhere.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
07-Nov-2019 APHIDIDAE 07-Nov-2019 MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018 APHIDIDAE 04-Oct-2019 MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018 Aphidinae 07-Nov-2019 MODIFIED
29-Jun-2012 07-Nov-2019 MODIFIED
07-Nov-2019 MODIFIED