#4042 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Giant Willow Aphid
🇳🇱 Dromedarisluis ·Tuberolachnus salignus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © RAP · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Steve Kerr · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Jason Eckberg · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © 113298704761943818357 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Maurice · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Grahame · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. © Grahame · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Steve Kerr · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Tuberolachnus salignus , or the giant willow aphid , is a species of aphid, in the genus Tuberolachnus . 8mm.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 66 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,741 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1790 (236 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Giant Willow Aphid
- Nederlands
- Dromedarisluis
- scientific name
- Tuberolachnus salignus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Aphididae
- sightings in NL
- 66
- sightings in Europe
- 1,630
- sightings worldwide
- 4,741
- GBIF records in NL
- 254
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1790 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
relatives· Aphididae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 354036, Wikidata Q14086166, GBIF 2073744, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.