Ceraleurodicus neivai ( Bondar, 1928 )

Canty, Roy J., Martini, Biancamaria & Wanke, Dominic, 2023, Three new species of Neotropical Ceraleurodicus Hempel (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) found in the Natural History Museum (London) collection, with notes and a puparial key to species, Zootaxa 5277 (2), pp. 313-338 : 328

Ceraleurodicus neivai ( Bondar, 1928)

NOMENCLATURE:

Radialeurodicus neivai Bondar, 1928: 3–5 .

Ceraleurodicus neivai ( Bondar, 1928) , according to Costa Lima (1928), by inference.

Distribution. Neotropical region— Brazil ( Dooley, 2022; Ouvrard & Martin, 2022).

Host. Unknown.

Material examined. 4 puparia on 1 slide, cotypes, Dr. Howards Memo of June 20, 1929 ( USNMNH) [no locality data given] .

Redescription

Puparium: Body ( Fig. 8a ) ovoid in shape (1.78–2.50 mm long). 8 pairs of lateral rays running mesad from the puparial margin.

6 pairs of compound pores on the sub-mesial plane of the dorsum. The first 5 pairs ( Fig. 8c ) are subequal in size: 1 cephalothoracic pair, and 1 pair each on abdominal segments III, IV, V, and VII, beside the VO. The final 6th pair ( Fig. 8e ) are reduced in size, and are located on abdominal segment VII, within the 8th pair of rays, near the puparial margin.

Puparial margin is planar, but with submarginal folds producing a crenulated submarginal layer with well-defined teeth, and an additional layer of folds of less well-defined teeth, appearing as collars for the dentate folds ( Fig. 8b ). The puparial margin has distinct combs at the apices of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 8th pairs of rays ( Fig. 8b ).

VO ( Fig. 8d ) elongate subcordate, and approximately1.2 times longer than wide; operculum elongate subcordate; lingula spatulate. On the lingula are two pairs of subapical setae.

Adults. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Ceraleurodicus neivai (Bondar) photographs showing: (a) dorsal habitus, (b) puparial margin showing submarginal combs at ray 1, (c) compound pore, (d) vasiform orifice, and (e) reduced compound pore near the edge of the puparial margin within ray 8.