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Issue: Vol. 5277 No. 2: 2 May 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-05-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5277.2.4
Page range: 313-338
Abstract views: 268
PDF downloaded: 23

Three new species of Neotropical Ceraleurodicus Hempel (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) found in the Natural History Museum (London) collection, with notes and a puparial key to species

Department of Entomology; The Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road; London SW7 5BD; U.K.
State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart; Entomology; Rosenstein Gewann 1; D-70191 Stuttgart; Germany
University of Hohenheim; Systematic Entomology (190n); Garbenstr. 30; D-70599 Stuttgart; Germany
Hemiptera Aleurodicinae Aleyrodidae Ceraleurodicus Entomology Neotropical Parudamoselis Radialeurodicus Taxonomy Whitefly

Abstract

In this study, three new species of whitefly in the neotropical genus Ceraleurodicus Hempel are described and illustrated based on specimens discovered in the aleyrodid collection of the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK): Ceraleurodicus boteh Canty sp. nov., Ceraleurodicus brianeno Canty sp. nov., and Ceraleurodicus wire Canty sp. nov. Also included is a key to puparia of the ten known species in the genus, and brief descriptions and illustrations of the known puparia and adults within the genus.

 

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