Taiwanaleyrodes Takahashi, 1932

Josephrajkumar, Arulappan, Evans, Gregory, Babu, Merin, Anes, Kakkanattu Meerasahib, Sajan, Jilu V. & Hegde, Vinayaka, 2024, Discovery of Aleuroclava canangae (Corbett) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on Coleus in India and the establishment and review of the Aleuroclava canangae species group, Journal of Natural History 58 (17 - 20), pp. 603-623 : 606

Taiwanaleyrodes Takahashi, 1932

Takahashi (1932) erected the genus Taiwanaleyrodes with Taiwanaleyrodes meliosmae Takahashi, 1932 , a species with non-tuberculate setae, which appears one-jointed and with lateral margin undifferentiated, as the type species. Corbett (1935) described Aleurotuberculatus canangae and Aleurotuberculatus macarangae , two species with tuberculate setae and tracheal clefts, and Taiwanaleyrodes canangae , Taiwanaleyrodes baccaureae and Taiwanaleyrodes fici , three species with tuberculate setae and the lateral margin undifferentiated at the opening of the tracheal furrow. He compared the latter species to Taiwanaleyrodes indica ( Singh, 1931) which also has tuberculate setae and lacks a tracheal cleft. Subsequently, other species, some with non-tuberculate setae and others with tuberculate setae, and some species with and others without tracheal clefts, were placed in the genus; however, all species of Aleuroclava that have tuberculate setae were placed in Martiniella in the past; Manzari and Quicke (2006) synonymised Taiwanaleyrodes with Aleuroclava . The new synonymy created a homonym of Aleurotuberculatus macarangae Corbett, 1935 described on pages 828–829, with Taiwanaleyrodes macarangae Corbett, 1935 described on pages 840–841 of the same publication; Martin and Mound (2007) renamed the latter Martiniella sepangensis based on page priority.