Tetralicia cecropiae ( Bondar, 1923 ) Valencia & Evans, 2024

Valencia, Luis & Evans, Gregory A., 2024, Review of the genus Tetralicia (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and description of two new species of whiteflies found on avocado trees in Peru, Zootaxa 5403 (2), pp. 197-238 : 215

8. Tetralicia cecropiae ( Bondar, 1923) , comb. nov.

( Figs. 4G , syntype puparium in MZU; 4H, syntype USNM; 4I, drawing Bondar 1923)

Aleurotrachelus cecropiae Bondar, 1923: 143 . Syntypes. Brazil: Bahia, G. Bondar, on Cecropia adenops ; type specimens reported to be deposited in MZU, NHM, USNM.

Aleuropleurocelus cecropiae (Bondar) ; Martin (2005: 20).

Distribution: Neotropical: Brazil.

Host: Moraceae : Cecropia adenopus , Cecropia sp.

New Record: Brazil, G. Bondar on Cecropia sp. , 1 slide with 7 puparia in USNM.

Comment: The USNM has one slide of this species with 7 puparia that is marked as a cotype. The area surrounding the vasiform orifice is very dark and sclerotized and difficult to observe in the USNM specimens. However, one individual is lighter and shows the vasiform orifice is set on top of a large, volcano-like protuberance, which we have not observed in other whitefly species. Carapia-Ruiz (2020b) reported and provided a photograph of this species found on Curatella americana and Psidium guajava in Mexico.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Puparia of Tetralicia species. A) debarroi Martin & Carver, B) erianthi Danzig, C) graminicola Bink-Moenen, D) iberiaca Bink-Moenen, E) tuberculata Bink-Moenen, F) cecropiae (Carapia-Ruiz, 2020b) G) cecropiae Bondar (type, MZU), H) cecropiae (type, USNM), I) cecropiae (type, Bondar 1923).