Trialeurodes dicksoniae Martin, 1999

Martin, Jon H. & Camus, Josephine M., 2001, Whiteflies (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae) colonising ferns (Pteridophyta: Filicopsida), with descriptions of two new Trialeurodes and one new Metabemisia species from south­east Asia, Zootaxa 2, pp. 1-19 : 16

Trialeurodes dicksoniae Martin, 1999

DISTRIBUTION. Australia (Victoria), New Zealand.

HOST PLANTS. Dicksoniaceae : Dicksonia antarctica ; D. squarrosa .

COMMENTS. The type sample was collected from tree ferns in the Eucalyptus forest of Tall Trees National Park in Australia. Whitefly puparial specimens have recently been collected on a different Dicksonia species in New Zealand (R. Henderson, NZAC, personal communication), and examination reveals that a small proportion of these specimens are identical to those of Australian T. dicksoniae . However, the majority of specimens from the same sample match material in BMNH, collected by Dumbleton and determined as T. asplenii : if these other specimens are indeed T. asplenii it is considered possible that T. dicksoniae will later prove to be its synonym.