CHAITOPHORINAE
(hairy aphids)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubfamilyCHAITOPHORINAE (hairy aphids)
FamilyAPHIDIDAE (greenfly)
SuperfamilyAPHIDOIDEA (aphids)
SuborderSTERNORRHYNCHA (a suborder of bugs)
OrderHEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
() Heie, O.E. 1982 The Aphidoidea (Hemiptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Volume 2. Family Drepanosiphidae Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 11, 176pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.
Stroyan, H.L.G. 1977 Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 2, Part 4(a), 130pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

CHAITOPHORINAE (hairy aphids) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 60 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CHAITOPHORINAE (hairy aphids)
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