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[[File:Pentalonia nigronervosa Flickr3.jpg|250px|thumb|''Pentalonia nigronervosa'' infestation on banana leaf (click on image to enlarge it)<br/>Author(s): Scot Nelson<br/>Source: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/scotnelson/37967345174/ Flickr]]]
<font color="#800000">'''''Pentalonia nigronervosa'''''</font> Coquerel, 1859 - (banana aphid)

This aphid infests bananas in many parts of the world. It was originally described from the Reunion Island, but probably originates from the south-east Asian and Pacific regions. It can reach high densities on banana plants, but is more important as a vector of the destructive [[Banana bunchy top virus|banana bunchy top disease]].

''P. nigronervosa'' has been also reported from various other plants belonging to families like Zingiberaceae or Araceae. However, morphological and molecular studies by [[Zootaxa (2010) 2358, 35-38|Foottit et al. (2010)]] in the Pacific showed that ''P. nigronervosa'' has only bananas as host plant and that aphids from other plants belong to the closely related ''[[Pentalonia caladii]]''.
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File:Pentalonia nigronervosa Flickr2.jpg|winged adult
File:Pentalonia nigronervosa Flickr1.jpg|aptera
File:Pentalonia_nigronervosa_PaDIL136139a.jpg|aptera
File:Pentalonia_nigronervosa_PaDIL136139e.jpg|apterous vivipara, head
File:Pentalonia_nigronervosa_PaDIL136139f.jpg|apterous vivipara, rostrum
File:Pentalonia_nigronervosa_PaDIL136139b.jpg|apterous vivipara, base of antenna
File:Pentalonia_nigronervosa_PaDIL136139c.jpg|apterous vivipara, tip of antenna
File:Pentalonia_nigronervosa_PaDIL136139g.jpg|wing
File:Pentalonia_nigronervosa_PaDIL136139d.jpg|apterous vivipara, tip of abdomen
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