Paraleyrodes bondari Peracchi

John H. Martin, 2004, Whiteflies of Belize (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae). Part 1 — introduction and account of the subfamily Aleurodicinae Quaintance & Baker, Zootaxa 681, pp. 1-86 : 65

Paraleyrodes bondari Peracchi

( Figs 45, 108, 113)

Paraleyrodes bondari Peracchi, 1971: 146 –148. Holotype (adult male), Brazil.

DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical Region — Belize, Brazil, Honduras, Venezuela; Nearctic Region — California, Florida; Palaearctic Region — Madeira; Malagasian Region — Comoro archipelago, Mauritius, Réunion; Oriental Region — Taiwan; Pacific Region — Hawaii.

COMMENTS. This species is represented from Belize (and also Honduras & Venezuela, slides in CDFA) only by small numbers of puparia. Even though the large puparial compound pores of P. bondari are distinctive (Fig. 113), the diagnostic male aedeagus (Fig. 108) not having been seen from Belize renders the record somewhat tentative, given the similarities between puparia of several Paraleyrodes species. P. bondari is currently one of the more mobile of Paraleyrodes species, as can be seen from the distribution data quoted here.