Whiteflies of Belize (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Part 2 - a review of the subfamily Aleyrodinae Westwood
Author
Martin, Jon H.
text
Zootaxa
2005
2005-12-19
1098
1
1
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1098.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1098.1.1
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Trialeurodes vitrinellus
(Cockerell)
(Figs 66, 132)
Aleyrodes
(
Trialeurodes
)
vitrinellus
Cockerell, 1903: 241
.
Syntypes
,
Mexico
.
Trialeurodes vitrinellus
(Cockerell)
Quaintance & Baker, 1915
: xi.
DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical Region:
Belize
,
Mexico
.
COMMENTS. In her account of North American
Trialeurodes
Russell (1948)
illustrated and described
T. vitrinellus
with shallow dorsal tubercles loosely defining the submedian area of the thorax and abdomen, with further tubercles on the median line of several abdominal segments. However, specimens determined by Russell and present in BMNH have no dorsal disc tubercles at all, better answering the description of her new species,
T. intermedia
. It is considered that puparia from
Psidium guajava
in the CFR, possessing tubercles as described above, belong to
T. vitrinellus
, one of the
T. floridensis
group of species (
q.v.
).