A revision of Aleurodicus Douglas (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae), with two new genera proposed for palaeotropical natives and an identification guide to world genera of Aleurodicinae
Author
Martin, Jon H.
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Zootaxa
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2008-07-30
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1835.1.1
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Palaealeurodicus cinnamomi
(Takahashi)
comb. nov.
(Fig. 77)
Aleurodicus cinnamomi
Takahashi, 1951: 1
.
Lectotype
here designated
,
West
Malaysia
(BMNH).
DISTRIBUTION. Austro-oriental Region –
Singapore
, West
Malaysia
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED.
Lectotype
puparium (female), West
Malaysia
, Cameron Highlands, on
Machilus sp. (Lauraceae)
,
01.x.1944
(R. Takahashi) (
BMNH
, Brit. Mus. 1955-799);
paralectotypes
, 27 puparia (female), 5 puparia (male), 5 dissected pre-emergence adult females, 3 dissected pre-emergence adult males, same data as
lectotype
(
BMNH
,
USNM
). Other material: 4 parasitised puparia (formerly
syntypes
),
Singapore
[“Malaya, Shonan”], no host data,
21.xii.1942
(R. Takahashi) (
BMNH
, Brit. Mus. 1955-799); 15 puparia,
Singapore
, Bukit Timah Forest Reserve, on
Nothaphoebe umbelliflora
(Lauraceae)
,
13.v.2000
(Martin) (
BMNH
).
COMMENTS.
Takahashi (1951)
specified both
Singapore
and Malaya as original localities for his
syntype
series, but two slides in BMNH (presented by the Director of the then Selangor Museum) are both labelled “Malaya”.
However
, one also has the collecting locality “Shonan”, which is the name which the
Japanese
(who were occupiers of the region from 1942-1945) bestowed upon
Singapore
: the material was collected in 1942.
Singapore
/
Shonan
was regarded as part of
Malaya
at that time.
The
Singapore
slide is a cavity slide containing four parasitised puparia only, with the parasitoid pupae having been removed from three of the whitefly puparia and mounted separately under the same coverslip: this slide has not warranted remounting
.
The
second syntypic slide in BMNH contained over
30 specimens
(detailed above), which had received little preparation prior to mounting.
As
part of this study, this material has been macerated, de-waxed, stained and remounted onto seven new slides, one slide bearing the original labels.
The
determination “
Aleurodicus cinnamomi
Takahashi
” over-lay an earlier label “
Aleurodicus machili
Takahashi
”, which has now been left exposed for historical reasons –
Takahashi
had apparently initially thought it to be
A. machili
which he himself had described in 1931.
The
remainder of the data from this second original slide are “
Machilus
, Cameron
Highlands
,
1.x.1944
,
R. Takahashi
, Brit. Mus. 1955-799”. The
lectotype
is one of
four female
puparia on the slide bearing the original labels, and is clearly indicated; one of the new
paralectotype
slide preparations has been presented to USNM
.