Aleurocanthus spiniferus (Quaintance)

Lee, Suhyeon & Suh, Soo-Jung, 2022, Whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) intercepted on plant product imported to South Korea from 2013 - 2021, Insecta Mundi 2022 (947), pp. 1-17 : 4

2. Aleurocanthus spiniferus (Quaintance) ( Fig. 3 )

Diagnosis. Puparium black. Puparial margin covered with wax secretion. Margin toothed; at least 6 teeth occupying 0.1mm of margin ( Martin 1987). Dorsal disc spines acute; submargin normally with 11 pairs of stout spines in a row, all similar in length.

Korean quarantine notes. This species was described from Java (Oriental region) and was intercepted four times; China on Pieris japonica (Ericaceae) , Japan on Camellia japonica and Camellia sinensis (Theaceae) and Thailand on Musa sapientum (Musaceae) . It is distributed in South Korea ( Lee 2019).

Figures

Figures 1–9. Seven species of whiteflies. 1–2) Aleurocanthus rugosa Singh, puparium and spines with fimbriate apices. 3) Aleurocanthus spiniferus (Quaintance), puparium. 4–5) Aleurocanthus woglumi Ashby, puparium and thoracic margin. 6) Aleuroclava aucubae (Kuwana), puparium. 7) Aleuroclava euryae (Kuwana), puparium. 8) Aleuroclava gordoniae (Takahashi), puparium. 9) Aleuroclava hikosanensis (Takahashi), puparium.