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A cladistic analysis of Dialeurodes , Massilieurodes and Singhiella , with notes and keys to the Nearctic species and descriptions of four new Massilieurodes species (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)
Author(s) -
Jensen Andrew S.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2001.00154.x
Subject(s) - nearctic ecozone , biology , cladistics , cladogram , hemiptera , zoology , genus , key (lock) , taxonomy (biology) , phylogenetic tree , ecology , genetics , gene
. A large subset of the whitefly genus Dialeurodes was analysed using cladistics. Thirty‐five characters and thirty‐five species were analysed. The results suggest that the species can be divided into three groups. Appropriate generic names are assigned to these groups based on the placement of the type species of Dialeurodes Cockerell, Massilieurodes Goux and Singhiella Sampson, to each of which species are assigned based on their placement in the cladograms or based on examination of original descriptions. Thirteen species are assigned to Dialeurodes , twenty‐four to Singhiella (twenty‐three new combinations) and fifteen to Massilieurodes including eleven new combinations and four new species, Massileurodes alabamensis sp.n., M. americanus sp.n., M. curiosa sp.n. and M. myricae sp.n. Discussions of the three genera are provided, along with keys for the identification of the Nearctic species. Descriptions of the adults of three previously described species are presented. Illustrations are provided for all North American members of the three genera.