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Aleyrodes spiraeoides Quaintance 1900

Description

Aleyrodes spiraeoides Quaintance 1900

Diagnosis. Puparium: Habitus. Very large (1115μm in length by 830μm in width), yellow, round to elliptical in shape, dorsum and surrounding surface often dusted with powdery white wax. Slide mounted specimen-Lateral margin. Crenulate with an undifferentiated tracheal cleft. Dorsum. Papillae and tracheal folds lacking; A 7 medial area as wide as that of A 6. Vasiform orifice. Orifice subcordate to triangular in shape with operculum covering half the vasiform orifice with conical lingula exposed. Venter. Smooth with faint c audal furrow. Pores. Indistinct or absent. Chaetotaxy. Caudal setae minute to fairly long.

Nevada distribution. Panaca (Lincoln County).

Nevada hosts. Solanaceae: Solanum tuberosum.

Comments. Not collected since 1961 in Lincoln County, Nevada.

Notes

Published as part of Dooley Iii, John W., Lambrecht, Susan & Honda, Jeffrey, 2010, Eight new state records of aleyrodine whiteflies found in Clark County, Nevada and three newly described taxa (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Aleyrodinae), pp. 1-36 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (140) on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164926

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Quaintance
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Aleyrodidae
Genus
Aleyrodes
Species
spiraeoides
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aleyrodes spiraeoides Quaintance, 1900 sec. Iii, Lambrecht & Honda, 2010

References

  • Quaintance, A. L. 1900. Contribution towards a monograph of the American Aleurodidae. Technical Series, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 8: 9 - 64.