FAUNISTIC REVIEW OF THE GENUSCHAITOPHORUSKOCH, 1854 (APHIDIDAE, CHAITOPHORINAE, CHAITOPHORINI) WITH NEW RECORD SPECIES FOR IRAQ APHID FAUNA

A faunistic review of the genus ChaitophorusKoch, 1854, including four species in Iraq is given; the distribution data of each species and their hosts have been recorded. In this investigation the poplar leaf aphidCh. populialbae(Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1841) is recorded here for the first time in Iraq on popular trees Populus euphraticaOliv. during the period from November 2016 to April 2017 in Baghdad province.A brief description for apterous viviparous female of this species is given; and a key to the species of the genus Chaitophorusis constricted.