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Issue: Vol. 3608 No. 2: 17 Jan. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-01-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.2.4
Page range: 137–146
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 8

Gadigaleyrodes froggatti, a new genus and species of whitefly

United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, 389 Oyster Point Blvd, Suite 2A, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
New South Wales Primary Industries, Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, Orange Agricultural Institute, Forest Road, Orange, NSW, 2800, Australia
Hemiptera Aleurodicinae Aleyrodinae Australia California Academy of Sciences Froggatt Sydney Botanical Gardens taxonomy key

Abstract

A new monotypic genus of whiteflies (Aleyrodidae), Gadigaleyrodes gen.n., is described and illustrated for G. froggatti sp.n. from New South Wales, Australia. Specimens were collected by W. W. Froggatt in 1899 on Syncarpia glomulifera, and subsequently by P. S. Gillespie on an unknown climbing plant. The genus has unusual morphological features with traits common to both Aleurodicinae and Aleyrodinae. The subfamily placement is discussed, and a key provided to discriminate this taxon from similar whitefly genera in Australia.

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