Aleyrodini

Manzari, Shahab & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2006, A cladistic analysis of whiteflies, subfamily Aleyrodinae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae), Journal of Natural History 40 (44 - 46), pp. 2423-2554 : 2453

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 is not available in Aleyrodidae as it is preoccupied in the Cecidomyidae ; the genus is now known as Aleurotuba (Mound and Halsay 1978; Tremblay and Iaccarino 1978). There were no specimens available for Hesperaleyrodes , Luederwaldtiana , Mexicaleyrodes , Nealeyrodes , and Neoaleurodes , and Laingiella was also omitted from the analysis (see ‘‘Materials and methods’’). Furthermore, Aleurocanthus , Aleurotrachelus , and Pentaleyrodes were transferred to Aleurochantini (see above), but David (1990) later reassigned Aleurotrachelus to Aleyrodini . Russell (1947) transferred Aleurotithius to Trialeurodini , and David (1990) relocated Acaudaleyrodes , Tetraleurodes , and Zaphanera in Neomaskellini , Tetraleurodini , and Zaphanerini , respectively (see below). Monophyly of Aleyrodini based on Sampson’s classification even excluding Acaudaleyrodes , Aleurocanthus , Aleurotithius , Aleurotrachelus , Pentaleyrodes , Tetraleurodes , and Zaphanera 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 by Martin (1999). This tribal classification, too, failed to be monophyletic. Except Aleyrodes, David (1999) 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.