Aleurocerus, Bondar
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ALEUROCERUS Bondar View in CoL
Aleurocerus Bondar, 1923: 156 View in CoL . Type species Aleurocerus luxuriosus View in CoL , by original designation. Uraleyrodes Sampson & Drews, 1941: 180 . Type species Uraleyrodes ceriferus , by monotypy.
[Synonymised by Mound & Halsey, 1978: 27.]
DIAGNOSIS AND COMMENTS. As interpreted here, Aleurocerus comprises species with the following combination of puparial characters: vasiform orifice wider than long, lingula obscured by operculum, orifice itself borne on a striking bifid, horned, process ( Fig. 38 View FIGURES 35–40 ); cuticle dark brown to black; living puparia usually gregarious, secreting coarse, raphialike, ribbons of secretion, with exuviae of earlier stages often stacked above the puparium; submargin separated from the dorsal disc by a prounounced furrow; abdominal segments submedially rhachisform; margin coarsely toothed.
Aleurocerus is a welldefined genus, occurring only in the Neotropical Region (but occasionally intercepted by quarantine authorities elsewhere—see A. palmae , below). Russell (1986) provided an account of Aleurocerus , including an annotated puparial drawing and a key to the ten known species. In Belize, three species have been found, all of them already described (see below).
In BMNH there are several samples of puparia (from Costa Rica, Panamá and Trinidad) where the vasiform orifice terminates in a pronounced single horn, and these are considered to belong to a distinct genus that is closely allied to Aleurocerus .
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Aleurocerus
Martin, Jon H. 2005 |
Aleurocerus
Sampson, W. W. & Drews, E. A. 1941: 180 |
Bondar, G. 1923: 156 |