NOMEN: Gradipedes  Amyot & Serville 1843: 597 [C.-J.-B. Amyot, A. Serville. Histoire naturelle des insectes Hemipteres. – Patis, Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret, 1843: 1-675]

ORIGINAL SPELLING (Amyot & Serville 1843): Gradipedes (both in Latin and French)

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Amyot & Serville 1843): Aphides + Myzoxylides

SENIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:

= Gynaptera Laporte 1834
JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:

= Clinohomoptera Crampton 1916
= Aphidioptera Krausse & Wolff 1919 (non Aphidoptera Haeckel 1896)

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Aphis/fg (sine Coccus; incl. Adelges)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Aphidiae, Aphidina, Aphites, Aphidinae, Aphididae, Aphida, Aphisidi, Aphidoidea, Aphididomorpha

MODERN STATUS: junior synonym of Gynaptera Laporte 1834; belongs to a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.