Bemisini

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 Bemisini

Four of the six genera placed in this tribe by David (1990) (Appendix A) were briefly discussed above. The type-species of Pealius was not studied but the 10 examined species did not form a monophyletic clade. Setaleyrodes including the type-species, S. mirabilis Takahashi , also appeared non-monophyletic, but they were recovered together with some species of Pealius in the same clade ( Figures 13 and 14 ). Indoaleyrodes (three species examined including the type-species, I. laos (Takahashi)) was recovered as monophyletic but in a separate clade. The type-species of Neopealius (the only examined species of this small genus) was on its own branch. As already mentioned, the monophyly of Bemisia was refuted statistically (Table II) (see also ‘‘Discussion’’) and its type-species, B. tabaci , was on its own branch.

Figures

Figure 13. Strict consensus tree of 30 000 UW-MPTs resulting from analyses of morphological data. Figures above branches show bootstrap and Jacknife (underlined figures) values. Figures with an asterisk indicate the same value for both bootstrap and Jacknife.

Figure 14. Strict consensus tree of more than 10 000 MPTs-SAW-MaxRI.