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title: "Grape Phylloxera"
description: "Daktulosphaira vitifoliae — Insects & spiders. Grape phylloxera is an insect pest of grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/grape-phylloxera
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Grape Phylloxera

> Daktulosphaira vitifoliae — Insects & spiders. Grape phylloxera is an insect pest of grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America.

- Scientific name: *Daktulosphaira vitifoliae*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 8365
- Wikidata: [Q367315](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q367315)
- iNaturalist taxon: [324587](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/324587)

## Names

- en: Grape Phylloxera
- de: Reblaus
- es: Filoxera de la vid
- fr: Phylloxéra de la vigne
- nl: Druifluis
- pt: Filoxera
- pl: Filoksera winiec

## Countries with the most observations

US (3875), CA (938), IT (201), PT (178), FR (103), AT (86), ES (67), DE (45), UA (33), HR (17), HU (16), RU (11)

## Summary

Grape phylloxera is an insect pest of grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America. Grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae Fitch 1855) belongs to the family Phylloxeridae, within the order Hemiptera, bugs); originally described in France as Phylloxera vastatrix; it is equated to the previously described Daktulosphaera vitifoliae and Phylloxera vitifoliae. The insect is commonly just called phylloxera (; from Ancient Greek: φύλλον, leaf, and ξηρός, dry).
These almost microscopic, pale yellow, sap-sucking insects, related to aphids, feed on the roots and leaves of grapevines (depending on the…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera

## Photo

![Grape Phylloxera](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/grape-phylloxera/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dawn VanDeman · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/306722149

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/grape-phylloxera?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).