Cinara curvipes (Patch, 1912) – Bow-legged fir aphid

Information in Alien Species in Poland database are purely scientific and not legally binding.

Status

The species is alien in whole area of its current or past occurrence in Poland

Currently present in the environment

Reproducing in the environment

Numbers or/and range increasing

Invasive alien species

Occurrence

Earliest introduction/record

about 2014

Types of transport

  • Unintentional transport to Poland

Pathways of introduction

  • Contaminant nursery material

Type of release into natural environment

  • Transport – Contaminant

References

  • Hałaj R., Osiadacz B. 2015. On foreign land: the conquest of Europe by Cinara curvipes (Patch, 1912) Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 62: 261–265. DOI: 10.3897/dez.62.6457 link

Life form: Insect

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Aphididae