Aleurocanthus rugosa Singh, 1931

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

1. Aleurocanthus rugosa Singh ( Fig. 1–2 )

Diagnosis. Puparium pale or light yellow. Dorsomedial setae on at least abdominal segment (A) 1–A5 much longer than the vasiform orifice. Dorsal disc with more than 19 pairs of spines with fimbriate apices.

Korean quarantine notes. This species was described from India (Oriental region) and was intercepted five times from Myanmar and Vietnam on Piper betle (Piperaceae) . However, this whitefly species is not known to occur 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.