Tribe
Aleyrodini
The
Aleyrodini
originally comprised 24 genera ( Sampson 1943), and the author added another genus in 1947. Five more genera were added later ( Drews and Sampson 1956; Sampson and Drews 1956) (Appendix A). Of these Aleuromigada Singh is considered as nomina nuda and the name
Frauenfeldiella Gomez-Menor
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is not available in
Aleyrodidae
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as it is preoccupied in the
Cecidomyidae
; the genus is now known as
Aleurotuba
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(Mound and Halsay 1978; Tremblay and Iaccarino 1978). There were no specimens available for
Hesperaleyrodes
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,
Luederwaldtiana
,
Mexicaleyrodes
,
Nealeyrodes
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, and
Neoaleurodes
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, and
Laingiella
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was also omitted from the analysis (see ‘‘Materials and methods’’). Furthermore,
Aleurocanthus
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,
Aleurotrachelus
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, and
Pentaleyrodes
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were transferred to Aleurochantini (see above), but David (1990) later reassigned
Aleurotrachelus
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to
Aleyrodini
. Russell (1947) transferred
Aleurotithius
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to
Trialeurodini
, and David (1990) relocated
Acaudaleyrodes
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,
Tetraleurodes
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, and
Zaphanera
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in
Neomaskellini
,
Tetraleurodini
, and
Zaphanerini
, respectively (see below). Monophyly of
Aleyrodini
based on Sampson’s classification even excluding
Acaudaleyrodes
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,
Aleurocanthus
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,
Aleurotithius
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,
Aleurotrachelus
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,
Pentaleyrodes
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,
Tetraleurodes
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, and
Zaphanera
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was not supported in this study.
Takahashi (1954) placed only five genera from Japan in the
Aleyrodini
(Appendix A), of which two genera are now considered as synonyms:
Odontaleyrodes Takahashi
was synonymized with
Pealius
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by Martin (1999). This tribal classification, too, failed to be monophyletic. Except
Aleyrodes, David (1999)
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transferred all genera placed by Takahashi in
Aleyrodini
, to
Bemisini
and placed two more genera in the latter tribe (see
Bemisini
below).
David’s (1999) classification of
Aleyrodini
with five genera from India, viz.
Aleurocybotus
,
Aleuromarginatus
,
Aleurotrachelus
,
Aleurotulus
and
Aleyrodes
, was not supported by this study.