Aleuroglandulus subtilis Bondar 1923

Dooley Iii, John W., Lambrecht, Susan & Honda, Jeffrey, 2010, Eight new state records of aleyrodine whiteflies found in Clark County, Nevada and three newly described taxa (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Aleyrodinae), Insecta Mundi 2010 (140), pp. 1-36 : 6-7

Aleuroglandulus subtilis Bondar 1923

Diagnosis. Puparium: Habitus. Oval puparia scattered to densely populated on the underside of leaf. Pupal case light clear to yellow in color, oval, and with well developed prothoracic glands present and visible with hand lens. The large thoracic and abdominal pairs of glands secrete strands of yellowish to pale bundles of wax that arc above the puparium. Slide mounted puparium -Prothorax with a well-defined pair of large glands with smaller pair on A 3 absent or present; with caudal margin truncate; thoracic and caudal tracheal clefts are dentate; base of each leg with a stout spine.

Nevada distribution. Spring Mountains in Kyle Canyon.

Nevada materials studied (6 puparia). Collected at Kyle Canyon (36 o 00.707N by 115 o 25.777W) on Berberis .

Nevada hosts. Berberidaceae : Berberis repens .

Comments. This species is easily separated from others in Nevada with the presence of differentiated submedian pair of large glands on the prothoracic and abdominal III; vasiform orifice inset from the posterior margin equal to or less than its own length.

Reference. Russell 1944; Martin 2005 (gives key to species and synonymies).