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 : 18

Bemisia afer sens lat. form B

Figures 16, 17, 60

PUPARIUM. Habitus. The immature stages occur scattered under leaves of the host plants, without visible waxy secretions ( Fig. 60). Cuticle is pale. Margin. Outline boadly oval, 1.2mm long, 0.84mm wide, generally widest at abdominal segment I. Margin undulate with thoracic tracheal combs present. Has nearly the same attributes as afer sens . lat. Chaetotaxy. Eight abdominal pairs and seven cephalothoracic dorsal pairs. Two lengths of setae occur, one type (from Ocotea ) has submarginal setae much elongated ( Fig. 16), except for the eighth abdominal pair and two anterior submarginal pairs which are minute. A variant, on Laurus , Viburnum and Persea , has short submarginal setae that are nearly the same length as all other body setae ( Fig. 17). Typical of afer sens . lat., and nearly identical to B. medinae except for the lack of a color pattern. Venter. Thoracic tracheal folds faintly marked, as shown ( Fig. 16).

Material examined: GRAN CANARIA: Los Tiles on Ocotea foetens . TENERIFE: Las Mercedes, Güímar, Erjos, Barranco de las Moradas on Laurus novocanariensis , Viburnum rigidum , Ocotea foetens and Persea indica . LA GOMERA: El Cedro on Laurus novocanariensis and Viburnum rigidum .