RockyMountainAphids

Host plant-aphid association data from M.E. Palmer's (1952) "Aphids of the Rocky Mountain region: Including primarily Colorado and Utah, but also bordering area composed of southern Wyoming, southeastern Idaho and northern New Mexico"

This database contains host associations for 481 accepted aphid species in 74 genera and feeding on 438 accepted plant taxa in 263 genera.

Name cleaning

Host plant-aphid associations listed as an appendix (beginning p. 413) were digitized using OCR. Character recognition errors and taxonomic changes were corrected using (i) the iPlant Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (v.3.2) for plant names and (ii) the Global Names Index (beta) for aphids on 20 June 2017. For each, the highest scoring match was taken. No further error checking was done.

Manual correction log

These are names that failed to match automatically due to misspellings by Palmer.

• "Roripa" changed to "Rorippa" (WKP 2017-07-20)
• "Zygadenus" changed to "Zigadenus" (WKP 2017-07-20)
• "Sorghum vulgare" changes to "Sorghum bicolor" (WKP 2017-07-20)
• "Populus nigra italica" changed to "Populus nigra" (WKP 2017-07-20)
• "Mathiola" changed to "Matthiola" (WKP 2017-07-20)
• "Lupinus decumbens" changed to "Lupinus argenteus argenteus" per https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=516238#null (WKP 2017-07-20)
• "Wistaria" changed to "Wisteria" (WKP 2017-07-20)