Pseudozaphanera Manzari, 2006

Manzari, Shahab & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2006, A cladistic analysis of whiteflies, subfamily Aleyrodinae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae), Journal of Natural History 40 (44 - 46), pp. 2423-2554 : 2472-2473

Pseudozaphanera Manzari gen. n.

Type-species: Aleurodes niger Maskell, 1895 .

Description: Pupal case. Cuticle black. Margin toothed, thoracic and caudal tracheal pore areas not differentiated from margin. Submargin not separated from dorsal disc area by a line or fold. Longitudinal moulting suture reaching margin, transverse moulting suture curving anteriorly and reaching margin. Abdomen with exaggerated intersegmental sutures extending into outer subdorsum. Abdominal rhachis present or absent. Dorsum usually punctuated by geminate pore/porettes. Vasiform orifice cordate or subcordate, often elevated. Operculum almost filling vasiform orifice. Caudal furrow absent or faintly indicated. Eyespots absent or present.

Chaetotaxy: Cephalic and first abdominal setae absent, eight abdominal and caudal setae present. A row of submarginal setae present but their total number as well as their number on abdomen and cephalothorax variable (6–11, usually 7/8 pairs excluding the caudal setae), occasionally with a few pair subdorsal setae. All setae very small and often capitate.

Venter: Thoracic and caudal tracheal folds present. Antennae long, reaching middle of middle legs or more, male antennae much longer.

Distribution: Australia.

Hosts: Fabaceae .

Etymology: This genus is named to reflect its superficial similarity to Zaphanera .

Species included: Pseudozaphanera niger (Maskell) comb. n.; Pseudozaphanera papyrocarpae (Martin) comb. n.; Pseudozaphanera rhachisreticulata (Martin) comb. n.; Pseudozaphanera splendida (Martin) comb. n.; Pseudozaphanera wariensis (Martin) comb. n.

Comments: except the type-species, all above species included in this genus were originally been described in Zaphanera . The type-species has already been transferred to Aleurolobus , Tetraleurodes and Zaphanera by Quaintance and Baker (1914), Dumbleton (1956) and Martin (1999), respectively. Pseudozaphanera differs from Zaphanera in the number of submarginal setae as well as their shape, absence of cephalic setae, position of eight abdominal setae, shape of transverse moulting suture, and length of antennae. In Zaphanera , there are five pairs of setae (excluding the caudal setae), two pairs on the cephalothorax and three pairs on the abdomen, and these setae are not capitate. Antennae do not reach beyond front legs, and the eighth abdominal setae are located adjacent to postero-lateral margin of vasiform orifice. In three of the four described species (examined) retained in Zaphanera , including the type-species, Z. cyanotis , cephalic setae are present, and based on the redescription provided by David and Subramaniam (1976), they are not discernible in Z. publicus (Singh) (not examined). In Zaphanera abdominal segmentation is distinct only in the submedian area in contrast to Pseudozaphanera (see also tribe Zaphanerini ).