Cinara (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea) species distributed in Turkey and their host plants

This study has been carried out between 2009 and 2018 in order to determine Cinara species and their host plants distributed in some region of Turkey. Cinara belongs to Eulachnini tribes and Lachninae subfamily, which in the light of the latest molecular studies have turned out to be the basal group for the other aphids. Aphids of the Cinara genus (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea) includes about 200 species in the World and infest lignified parts, branches, trunks, roots and leaves of Pinaceae (especially Pinus, Cedrus, Abies and Picea )and Cupressaceae trees. Cinara species were identified according to the host plants where they colonize. Turkey distribution of this genus unknown exactly because of lack of enough studies on aphids. In the earlier studies, only 23 Cinara species were known from Turkey. As a result of these studies, 29 Cinara species collected on different plant species (Pinus spp., Cedrus spp., Juniperus spp., Cupressus spp., Plathyclaudus spp., Picea spp. and Abies nordmanniana) in the areas and 7 of them are new records for Turkey. The number of Cinara species occurring in Turkey has risen to 30 with these studies. Their world and Turkey distribution, host plants and population density were given.