Aleuroplatus, Quaintance & Baker
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ALEUROPLATUS Quaintance & Baker View in CoL View at ENA
Aleuroplatus Quaintance & Baker, 1914: 98 View in CoL . Type species Aleurodes quercusaquaticae Quaintance, 1900: 35–36 , by original designation.
DIAGNOSIS AND COMMENTS. As interpreted here, Aleuroplatus comprises species with the following combination of characters: cuticle usually black or brownish, occasionally pale; margin regularly crenulate, the marginal outline and/or teeth modified at caudal and thoracic tracheal openings to form an indentation or a “comb” which may be very marked or quite subtle; submargin not differentiated from dorsal disc by a fold or furrow; transverse moulting sutures not reaching puparial margin; vasiform orifice subcircular to subcordate, operculum occupying most of orifice and obscuring lingula; first abdominal setae absent; dorsal surface usually very flat, abdominal rhachis usually absent; venter often heavily sculptured, caudal and thoracic tracheal folds often marked.
Although the type species was described from the New World (Florida), Aleuroplatus currently accommodates a disparate worldwide assemblage of around 80 described species: these species include a great range of characteristics, and not all of them answer the rather loose diagnosis given here. Certainly, Aleuroplatus is a polyphyletic assemblage and is in much need of revision.
In Belize, only two described species have been identified (see below). However, 14 other taxa have been placed in Aleuroplatus , with varying degrees of certainty, from material amassed during this study (see Appendix 1).
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Aleuroplatus
Martin, Jon H. 2005 |
Aleuroplatus
Quaintance, A. L. & Baker, A. C. 1914: 98 |
Quaintance, A. L. 1900: 36 |