Garlic plants (cv. Amarante) cultivated during the spring in the greenhouse for detection of viruses, were found to be naturally colonized by a dark aphid. For species identification, specimens of the few alatae individuals collected by pan yellow water traps and many apterae individuals were compared to the species descriptions in Blackman & Eastop (1984). The specimens were also compared with Neotoxoptera formosana and N. oliveri from the aphid collection of the Phytopathology Department of the University of Brasília. The aphid found in the garlic plants belongs to the species Neotoxoptera formosana Takahashi, 1921.
Allium sativum; aphid
