“…Similar patterns have been previously described in Greece (Margaritopoulos et al, 2000(Margaritopoulos et al, , 2002Zitoudi et al, 2001;Poupoulidou et al, 2006;Blackman et al, 2007), Italy (Margaritopoulos et al, 2003), Japan Takada, 2003, 2004;Margaritopoulos et al, 2007aMargaritopoulos et al, , 2007b and the USA (Harlow and Lampert, 1990;Clements et al, 2000aClements et al, , 2000bSrigiriraju et al, 2009), where higher genotype diversity of tobacco aphids has been observed (Zepeda-Paulo et al, 2010). The colour polymorphisms can be explained by the presence of new M. persicae nicotianae genotypes resulting from sexual reproduction events, as reported for M. persicae in Chile on peaches (Rubiano-Rodríguez et al, 2014, 2019Rubio-Meléndez et al, 2018) or by new introduction events from neighbouring countries. These putative new genotypes could possess insecticide resistance mutations that affect tobacco aphid control in tobacco fields in Chile.…”