Paraleyrodes Quaintance, 1909

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 : 34

Genus Paraleyrodes Quaintance

Paraleyrodes Quaintance, 1909: 169 . Type species: Aleurodes perseae Quaintance, 1900 , by monotypy.

Comments. Paraleyrodes species are considerably smaller than most other members of the Aleurodicinae . Puparia of this genus are characterised by having 5 or 6 pairs of abdominal compound pores but the cephalic and posterior 4 pairs of abdominal compound pores are usually conspicuously larger than the anterior 1 or 2 abdominal pairs; 14 pairs of submarginal setae present, plus a pair of cephalic setae, but thoracic submedian setal pairs absent. Adults of this genus are unique amongst known whiteflies, with species most reliably diagnosed from the structure of male aedeagus (Martin, 1996). Adults of Paraleyrodes are also unusual because the females have 4 articulated antennal segments and the males have only 3 antennal segments; also, their wings do not have branched veins.