Singhiella simplex (Singh)

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 : 11

27. Singhiella simplex (Singh) ( Fig. 31 )

Diagnosis. Puparium white to pale. Dorsal disc covered with circular, raised papilla-like pores and porettes, thoracic tracheal fold and caudal furrow distinct. Thoracic and caudal tracheal openings with slightly stronger with an oval pore with a rim in the specimen examined; dorsal setae with fringed apices.

Korean quarantine notes. This species was described from India (Oriental region) and was intercepted once from China on Ficus sp. (Moraceae) . It is not known to occur in South Korea ( Lee 2019). This species has spread to all of the regions of the world except to Australia and the Afrotropical region and is a major pest of Ficus trees.

Figures

Figures 28–36. Nine species of whiteflies.28) Orchamoplatus mammaeferus (Quaintance and Baker), puparium.29) Parabemisia myricae (Kuwana), puparium. 30) Pealius mori (Takahashi), puparium. 31) Singhiella simplex (Singh), puparium. 32) Tetraleurodes sp., puparium. 33) Tetraleurodes ursorum (Cockerell), puparium. 34) Trialeurodes glacialis (Bemis), puparium. 35) Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood), puparium. 36) Tuberaleyrodes sp., puparium.