Review of the genus Tetralicia (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and description of two new species of whiteflies found on avocado trees in Peru
Author
Valencia, Luis
Author
Evans, Gregory A.
Ph. D. Entomologist. USDA, APHIS-PPQ, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, BARC - West, Bldg. 003, Rm 324, Beltsville, Maryland 20705.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5403.2.2
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10.11646/zootaxa.5403.2.2
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13.
Tetralicia ericae
Harrison, 1917
(
Figs. 3A, E, H, I, J, N
,
Bink-Moenen 1989
;
Figs. 3B, C, D, F, G, K, L, M, P
, USNM specimen).
Tetralicia ericae
Harrison, 1917
a: 61
.
Syntypes
.
Adults
,
England
:
Durham
,
Waldridge Fell
,
on
Erica tetralix
; in NHM
.
Distribution:
Western Palearctic
:
Austria
, Corfu, Crete,
Czech Republic
,
Denmark
,
England
,
France
,
Germany
,
Iran
,
Italy
, Mallorca,
Malta
,
Netherlands
,
Portugal
,
Scotland
, Sicily,
Spain
,
Sweden
, USSR (former),
Wales
.
Host:
Ericaceae
:
Erica carnea
,
E. multiflora
,
E. tetralix
.
Parasitoids⸺
Aphelinidae
:
Encarsia
sp.
lutea
group;
Eulophidae
:
Euderomphale
sp.
;
Platygastridae
:
Amitus
cf
rugosus
.
Comments.
Drews & Sampson (1956)
published F. Laing’s illustration along with their redescription of this species.
Mound & Halsey (1978)
stated that the
types
of this species are presumed lost; however, material from the
type
host and locality are deposited in the NHM.
Bink-Moenen (1989)
illustrated the adult antennal characters which readily serve to distinguish adults of this species from those of
Tetralicia ericae
on the same hosts.
Iaccarino & Viggiani (1988)
published a note on the puparial variability of
T. ericae
.
Martin
et al
. (2000)
illustrated this species.
Trialeurodes ericae
is apparently monophagous on
Erica
.
Ghahari
et al
. (2009)
reported this species on
Erica
sp.
in
Iran
.