Six newly recorded species of whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from China

  • Jirui Wang ,
  • Yuzhou Du ,
  • Zhihong Xu
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  • 1School of Agricultural & Food Science, Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, Lin’an 311300, China. 2School of Horticulture and Plant Protection & Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China

Online published: 2016-10-24

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This research was funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016M592017), National Natural Science Foundation of China (31601884), Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest of China (201303019).

Abstract

Six species of whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), namely Aleuromarginatus corbettiaformis Martin, Aleurotrachelus machili Takahashi, Asialeyrodes indica Sundararaj & David, Asterobemisia takahashii Danzig, Pealius akebiae (Kuwana) and Tetraleurodes neemani Bink-Moenen, are reported as new records to Chinese fauna and redescribed with their morphology, illustrations and photographs of scanning electron microscope (SEM). The specimens are deposited in the Insect Collection of Yangzhou University.

Cite this article

Jirui Wang , Yuzhou Du , Zhihong Xu . Six newly recorded species of whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from China[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2016 , 41(4) : 427 -438 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.201647

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