Tetraleurodes quercicola Nakahara 1995

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 : 18

Tetraleurodes quercicola Nakahara 1995

Diagnosis. Puparium ( Figure 10 ): Habitus. Oval sclerotized and black; wax not observed. Slide mounted specimen-Lateral margin. Lateral margin dentate, teeth wider than long and apically truncate to subtruncate; small, oval glandular areas at base of marginal teeth; submargin with transverse ridges and furrows terminating at, or close, to base of marginal teeth; band of microtubercles present extending from the pale glandular areas on the ridges. Dorsum. Submargin differentiated from dorsal disk by submarginal fold. Eyespots diffuse. Longitudinal molting suture terminates at the anterior margin; transverse molting suture diagonally extends to subdorsal ridge curving anterior to the level of the mesometathoracic suture. Venter. Smooth without distinct sculpture or pattern. Vasiform orifice. Subcordate located on a raised area of A 8; small tubercle with pale gland on posterolateral part of rim; orifice margin with two rows of cell-like structures (inner row with 4 cells laterally and outer row with 15-16 cells laterally and caudally). Operculum is subcordate and subequal to orifice size completely covering the lingula. Pores. Disk pores, 4-5μm in diameter, with associated porettes in median row around submargin; 3 m in diameter, with associated porettes present on cephalothorax and abdomen subdorsally and submedially. Chaetotaxy. Cephalothoracic and A 8 submedian setae absent; caudal setae short, thin about 5μm long.

Nevada distribution. Red Rock Canyon NCA: Pine Creek Canyon.

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Figure 10. Tetraleurodes quercicola Nakahara.