Revision of the genus Minutaleyrodes Jesudasan and David (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) with descriptions of two new species from the Little Andaman Island, India
Author
Dubey, Anil Kumar
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-06
4748
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315
333
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4748.2.5
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Aleuroclava pearlis
(Pushpa and Sundararaj)
comb. nov.
(
Figs 44–51
)
Minutaleyrodes pearlis
Pushpa and Sundararaj, 2010: 47–48
.
Material examined:
Minutaleyrodes pearlis
Pushpa and Sundararaj
:
Holotype
,
India
,
Karnataka
,
Srinkeri
,
on
Syzygium
sp.,
14.vi.2007
,
R
. Pushpa (
NFIC-FRI # 21874
).
Hosts.
Myrtaceae
:
Syzygium
sp. (
Pushpa and Sundararaj, 2010
).
Distribution.
India
:
Karnataka
(
Pushpa and Sundararaj, 2010
).
FIGURES 44–51.
Aleuroclava pearlis
(Pushpa and Sundararaj)
comb. nov.
, holotype, 44, puparium, dorsal and ventral views; 45, first abdominal seta; 46, cephalothorax; 47, thoracic tracheal pore area; 48, margin and submargin; 49, abdominal median tubercles; 50, abdominal segment sutures; 51, vasiform orifice and caudal furrow. (CES—cephalic seta, FAS—first abdominal seta).
FIGURES 52–56.
Minutaleyrodes tricolorata
Pushpa and Sundararaj
syn. nov.
(=
Dialeurodes turpiniae
(Meganathan and David)
, holotype, 52, puparium; 53, cephalothorax; 54, thoracic tracheal pore; 55, metathorax and first abdominal segment; 56, vasiform orifice, caudal furrow. (CES—cephalic seta).
FIGURES 57–59.
Line drawings,
M
.
whisper
sp. nov.
, holotype, 57, puparium; 58, thoracic tracheal pore; 59, vasiform orifice, caudal furrow.
Remarks.
Presence of the first abdominal setae (
Fig. 45
), prominent median tubercles on the abdominal segments, emarginated tracheal pores and puparial shape similar to
A
.
hikosanensis
and
A
.
trachelospermi
agree with the genus characters of
Aleuroclava
, and
Aleuroclava pearlis
(Pushpa and Sundararaj)
comb. nov.
is proposed for
Minutaleyrodes pearlis
Pushpa and Sundararaj.
Aleuroclava pearlis
(Pushpa and Sundararaj)
comb. nov.
has a ventral submarginal fold, and although this is not a genus character for
Aleuroclava
, several species currently placed in
Aleuroclava
have a ventral submarginal fold.