Geoica lucifuga

Geoica lucifuga, the sugarcane root aphid, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants.

Geoica lucifuga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Aphididae
Genus:	Geoica
Species:	G. lucifuga
Binomial name
Geoica lucifuga (Zehntner, 1897)
Synonyms
Tetraneura lucifuga Zehntner, 1897 Tetraneura golbachi Blanchard, 1958 Tetraneura horvathi Nevsky, 1929 Tetraneura pseudosetulosa Theobald, 1928 Tetraneura spatulata Theobald, 1923 Tetraneura ferghanensis nomen nudum

References

• http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Geoica_lucifuga/classification/
• http://www.nbair.res.in/Aphids/Geoica-lucifuga.php
• http://aphid.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1161460