Bemisia afer sens

Hernández-Suárez, Estrella, Martin, Jon H., Gill, Raymond J., Bedford, Ian D., Malumphy, Christopher P., Betancort, J. Alfredo Reyes & Carnero, Aurelio, 2012, 3212, Zootaxa 3212, pp. 1-76 : 19

Bemisia afer sens lat. form F

( Figures 25, 26, 63, 68, 71, 78, 79)

PUPARIUM. Habitus. The immature stages occur scattered or aggregated on both surfaces of leaves of host plants, without visible secreted dorsal wax ( Fig. 63). Cuticle is pale. Margin. Outline oval, generally widest at abdominal segment I. In forms from the lower leaf surface margin undulate with thoracic tracheal openings not marked ( Fig. 25), but the overall outline often heavily emarginated by leaf hairs. In specimens from upper surfaces of leaves ( Fig. 26), tracheal openings marked as thickened crenulations and puparial outline smooth. Thus, two morphologies occur within the populations on this host. In upper-surface specimens small dome-like protuberances present on the abdominal midline, and reduced numbers of protuberances along the subdorsal arc ( Fig. 26). Lower leaf-surface specimens ( Fig. 25) have large multilobed protuberances on dorsal midline and subdorsal arc, the protuberances being extremely lobulate, the lobulate tubercles visible in both living and preserved specimens. Chaetotaxy. Nine pairs of abdominal and nine pairs of cepalothoracic setae present, most long and stout (including eighth abdominal and caudal pairs) but a few cephalothoracic pairs minute; posterior marginal setae exceptionally long, resembling long dorsal setae. Venter. Thoracic tracheal folds faintly marked in upper-surface puparia.

Material examined: TENERIFE: Las Mercedes, Valle Guerra, Barranco Badajoz on Bencomia caudata .