Dialeurodes citri (Ashmead) 1885

Dooley Iii, John W., Lambrecht, Susan & Honda, Jeffrey, 2010, Eight new state records of aleyrodine whiteflies found in Clark County, Nevada and three newly described taxa (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Aleyrodinae), Insecta Mundi 2010 (140), pp. 1-36 : 16

Dialeurodes citri (Ashmead) 1885

Diagnosis. Puparium: Habitus. Usually pale and semi-translucent, oval and flat in shape. Slide mounted specimen-Lateral margin. Smooth or crenulate with caudal and thoracic tracheal clefts pore-like that is internally smooth. Dorsum. Submarginal fold or furrow absent; thoracic and caudal tracheal furrows stippled with micro spines; transverse molting suture terminates well before margin; subdorsal tubercles present; A 1 to A 6 segments subequal in length. Vasiform orifice. Broadly elliptical or subcircular; operculum covers almost all of orifice obscuring most of lingula. Venter. Antennae terminate at the T 1 pair of legs. Chaetotaxy. Cephalic, A 8 (located anterior to the widest diameter of the vasiform orifice) and caudal setae present; A 1 setae absent; 12 pairs of submarginal setae.

Distribution. Las Vegas (Clark County).