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Issue: Vol. 2417 No. 1: 2 Apr. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-04-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2417.1.3
Page range: 51–65
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 17

Description of Asiothrixus gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and two new species with diagnoses and a puparial key to species

Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.
Hemiptera Aleyrodidae Aleurothrixus Asiothrixus new genus key

Abstract

A new Asian genus is diagnosed, Asiothrixus, with Aleurothrixus antidesmae Takahashi as type species, together with Asiothrixus smilaceti (Takahashi) comb. nov., Asiothrixus silvestris (Corbett) comb. nov., Asiothrixus specialis sp. nov. and Asiothrixus unicus sp. nov. Lectotypes are designated for both A. antidesmae and A. smilaceti. Characteristics of the new genus are discussed, and puparial diagnoses and illustrations for the species provided, together with a puparial key to species.

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