Chaitophorus vitellinae (Schrank, 1802)
(a hiary aphid)

Interactions where Chaitophorus vitellinae is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
colony		colony sucks sap of shoot (young)			Salix alba	White Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus vitellinae/	Chaitophorus vitellinae	a hiary aphid				colony	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix alba/	Salix alba	white willow			shoot (young)
colony		colony sucks sap of twig (young)			Salix alba	White Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus vitellinae/	Chaitophorus vitellinae	a hiary aphid				colony	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix alba/	Salix alba	white willow			twig (young)
colony		colony sucks sap of shoot (young)			Salix euxina x alba = S. x fragilis	hybrid crack-willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus vitellinae/	Chaitophorus vitellinae	a hiary aphid				colony	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix euxina x alba = S. x fragilis/	Salix euxina x alba = S. x fragilis	hybrid crack-willow			shoot (young)
colony		colony sucks sap of twig (young)			Salix euxina x alba = S. x fragilis	hybrid crack-willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus vitellinae/	Chaitophorus vitellinae	a hiary aphid				colony	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix euxina x alba = S. x fragilis/	Salix euxina x alba = S. x fragilis	hybrid crack-willow			twig (young)
colony		colony sucks sap of shoot (young)			Salix triandra	Almond Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus vitellinae/	Chaitophorus vitellinae	a hiary aphid				colony	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix triandra/	Salix triandra	almond willow			shoot (young)
colony		colony sucks sap of twig (young)			Salix triandra	Almond Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus vitellinae/	Chaitophorus vitellinae	a hiary aphid				colony	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix triandra/	Salix triandra	almond willow			twig (young)
colony		colony sucks sap of shoot (young)			Salix viminalis	Osier	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus vitellinae/	Chaitophorus vitellinae	a hiary aphid				colony	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix viminalis/	Salix viminalis	osier			shoot (young)
colony		colony sucks sap of twig (young)			Salix viminalis	Osier	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus vitellinae/	Chaitophorus vitellinae	a hiary aphid				colony	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix viminalis/	Salix viminalis	osier			twig (young)

Interactions where Chaitophorus vitellinae is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		colony honeydew may support			FORMICIDAE	ants	Hymenoptera	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Formicidae/	Formicidae	ants					Animal / honeydew feeder			/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus vitellinae/	Chaitophorus vitellinae	a hiary aphid				colony				feeds on honeydew colony

Author & Year	Title	Source
Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 2, Part 4(a), 130pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Chaitophorus vitellinae (a hiary aphid) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

INSECTA
(true insects)

Chaitophorus vitellinae (a hiary aphid) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

APHIDIDAE
(greenfly)

APHIDOIDEA
(aphids)

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Chaitophorus vitellinae (a hiary aphid)
Genus	Chaitophorus (a genus of hairy aphids)
Subfamily	CHAITOPHORINAE (hairy aphids)
Family	APHIDIDAE (greenfly)
Superfamily	APHIDOIDEA (aphids)
Suborder	STERNORRHYNCHA (a suborder of bugs)
Order	HEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division	Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Chaitophorus vitellinae is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Chaitophorus vitellinae (a hiary aphid)

Chaitophorus vitellinae (a hiary aphid) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CHAITOPHORINAE
(hairy aphids)

APHIDIDAE
(greenfly)

APHIDOIDEA
(aphids)

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Chaitophorus vitellinae (a hiary aphid):

CHAITOPHORINAE
(hairy aphids)

APHIDIDAE
(greenfly)

APHIDOIDEA
(aphids)

STERNORRHYNCHA
(a suborder of bugs)

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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