aphid

English

Etymology

Modern Latin aphides, coined by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. His inspiration for the name remains unclear. OED suggests a connection to Ancient Greek ἀφειδής (apheidḗs, “unsparing, lavishly borrowed”) in reference to the insects' voracity or rapid rate of production.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.fɪd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.fɪd/

Noun

aphid (plural aphids)

1. Sapsucking pest insect of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.

Translations

insect

• Belarusian: тля f (tlja)
• Bulgarian: листна въшка (listna vǎška)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蚜 (zh) (yá), 蚜蟲／蚜虫 (zh) (yáchóng), 蚜虫 (zh) (yáchóng)

• Czech: mšice (cs) f
• Danish: bladlus c
• Dutch: bladluis (nl) f
• Esperanto: afido
• Finnish: kirva (fi)
• French: puceron (fr) m
• German: Blattlaus (de) f
• Greek: αφίδα (el) f (afída), μελίγκρα (el) f (melígkra)
• Hebrew: כנימה (he) f (knimá)
• Icelandic: blaðlús (is) f
• Ido: afidio (io)
• Irish: aifid f
• Italian: afide m
• Japanese: 油虫 (アブラムシ, aburamushi)
• Korean: 진딧물 (jindinmul)
• Kumyk: сияла (siyala)
• Latin: lens olerum
• Macedonian: ли́сна во́шка f (lísna vóška)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: afid, kutu daun
• Maori: kuturiki
• Navajo: nahachagii biyázhí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bladlus m or f

• Polish: mszyca (pl) f
• Portuguese: pulgão (pt) m, afídeo m
• Romanian: afidă (ro) f, afide pl
• Russian: тля (ru) f (tlja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лисна ваш f

  Roman: lisna vaš (sh) f

• Slovak: mšica f
• Slovene: listna uš f
• Spanish: áfido m
• Swedish: bladlus (sv)
• Tagalog: dapulak
• Ukrainian: тля f (tlja), попели́ця f (popelýcja)
• Volapük: faid
• Welsh: llysleuen f, llyslau f pl
• Westrobothnian:

See also

• blackfly
• greenfly
• jumping plant louse
• whiteflies