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Issue: Vol. 2794 No. 1: 18 Mar. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-03-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2794.1.5
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 12

A new species of Bemisia (Hemiptera, Aleyrodidae) from New Zealand

Insect Biosystematist, Emeritus, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, Sacramento California, USA
Entomologist, Bio-protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Canterbury, and Plant Health and Environment Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Christchurch, New Zealand
Hemiptera Bemisia flocculosa Bemisia tabaci Melicytus obovatus New Zealand new species

Abstract

Bemisia flocculosa sp. n. is described from Melicytus obovatus (Violaceae) trees in New Zealand. It is similar in structure to B. tabaci and also to B. capitata, differing from the former in its wax producing habit, the associated wax producing callosity areas, and lingula shape, and from the latter in the lingula shape and lack of capitate setae. In the production of white dorsal wax secretions it resembles species previously placed in Lipaleyrodes, but B. flocculosa produces waxes along the discal/submarginal arc and in the center of the disc, rather than on the submarginal areas.

References

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