Aleyrodinae Westwood 1840
Creators: name: Dooley Iii, John W.
name: Lambrecht, Susan
name: Honda, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae

description: Key to the genera of the Aleyrodinae of Nevada (based on puparium)   1. Puparium clear to yellowish in color........................................................................................... 2   
 — Puparium dark brown to black................................................................................................... 6   
 2(1). Puparium with large pair of glands on the dorsum of the metathorax; thoracic and caudal clefts dentate...........................................................................................  Aleuroglandulus Bondar    
 — Large prothoracic glands absent; tracheal clefts not dentate..................................................... 3 3(2). Dorsum with elongate siphon tubes........................................................  Siphoninus Silvestri    
 — Dorsum without elongate siphon tubes....................................................................................... 4   
 4(3). Submarginal row of papillae present (Figure 15), lingula visible and tri-lobed.......................................................................................................................................  Trialeurodes Cockerell    
 — Submarginal row of papillae absent, if present, does not occur in rows..................................... 5   
 5(4). Cranial suture present; caudal and thoracic tracheal clefts and furrows present; vasiform orifice semi—hemispherical—shaped; lingula reduced or mostly obscured by operculum...............................................................................................................................  Dialeurodes Cockerell    
 — Cranial suture absent; clefts rudimentary or absent; vasiform orifice triangular-shaped; lingula lanceolate and exposed.......................................................  Bemisia Quaintance and Baker    
 6(1). Dorsum with one row of flat, elongate papillae present in the submargin and median areas (Figure 4); reniform papillae present........................................................  Aleuroparadoxus Russell    
 — Dorsum without elongate and reniform papillae absent; if papillae present, then cone, bullet, or rod shaped................................................................................................................................. 7   
 7(6). Papillae present in submarginal rows, with or without dorsal clusters of papillae (Figure 12, 13); lingula tri-lobed.................................................................................  Trialeurodes Cockerell    
 — Papillae absent; lingula if visible not lobed................................................................................. 8   
 8(7). Lateral margin deflexed (Figure 7), body boat-shaped or oval; most species with protuberance at the posterior apex of puparium.............................  Aleuropleurocelus Drew and Sampson    
 — Lateral margin not deflexed: not boat-shaped............................................................................. 9   
 9(8). Dorsum with a subdorsal fold and submarginal transverse bands (Figure 9, 10, 11)..........................................................................................................................  Tetraleurodes Cockerell    
 — Dorsum without subdorsal folds or submarginal transverse bands (Figure 5)................................................................................................................  Aleuroplatus Quaintance and Baker
description: Published as part of 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), pp. 1-36 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (140) on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164926