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Home of the Database of Insects and their Food Plants Family   Mindaridae Sub Family   Description   a family of aphids Background to Family   A dozen species with annual life cycles and parthenogenetic, live-bearing females. Mindarus occurs on coniferous trees, Phloeomyzus on Populus, and Anoecia (Anoeciinae) uses Cornus and grasses (roots) as the primary and secondary hosts, respectively. Neanoecia and Paranoecia are associated with Poaceae and Cyperaceae, respectively.     No. taxa in DBIF   15 No. interactions   62 % interactions with British data   24% No. records   70 % taxa with British data   33% Notes   Data currently unassessed by a specialist for changes in nomenclature, new species to the British list, new interactions, errors in original sources, and misspellings.; The Mindaridae is now treated as a sub-family (Mindarinae) of the Aphididae (Blackman & Eastop, 1994). Certain genera have been moved to their own sub-families in the Aphididae: Phloeomyzus (Phloeomyzinae), and Anoecia, Neanoecia and Paranoecia (Anoeciina; Notes on Sources   Most recent source   1985 Below is a list of all sources for this family / sub-family contained within DBIF. Click on source name for a list of all records for this source.   Source   Borner, C.(1952) Mitt. thuering. bot. Ges. 4 1-484:182 Source   Carter, C.I. & Maslen, N.R.(1982) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 58 1-75:14 Source   Borner, C.(1952) Mitt. thuering. bot. Ges. 4 1-484:180 Source   Stroyan, H.L.G.(1972) Trans. r. ent. Soc. Lond. 124 37-79:70 Source   Borner, C.(1952) Mitt. thuering. bot. Ges. 4 1-484:179 Source   Stroyan, H.L.G.(1979) Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 65 1-54:48 Source   Viart, M. (ed.) (1979) Poplars and Willows in Wood Production and Land Use. FAO Forestry Series 10 1-328:236 Source   Stroyan, H.L.G.(1955) Trans. r. ent. Soc. Lond. 106 283-340:333 Source   Stroyan, H.L.G.(1964) Trans. r. ent. Soc. Lond. 116 29-72:60 Source   Carter, C.I. & Maslen, N.R.(1982) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 58 1-75:15 Source   Stroyan, H.L.G.(1964) Trans. r. ent. Soc. Lond. 116 29-72:61 Source   Carter, C.I. & Nichols, J.F.A.(1985) For. Commn. Res. Dev. Pap. 135 94-99:97