Dialeurodes (Gigaleurodes)

Wang, Ji-Rui, Du, Yu-Zhou, Xu, Zhi-Hong & Zhou, Guo-Xin, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of Dialeurodes (Gigaleurodes) Quaintance & Baker (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 4915 (4), pp. 585-593 : 591

Key to the puparia of Chinese species of Dialeurodes (Gigaleurodes)

Note. Puparial characters obtained from original descriptions of species are indicated by an asterisk (*).

1. Puparium shape circular or rounded....................................................................... 2

-. Puparium shape obovate, elliptical, hemicircular............................................................. 3

2. Puparium with marginal and submarginal areas light green, and the median area brown; marked with brown along the transverse molting suture; brown irregular patches distributed on the anterior and posterior dorsum; deep furrow along the margin of operculum.................................................................. parakmeriae Wang , sp.nov.

-. Puparium yellowish, marginal rim transparent, the tracheal folds and caudal furrow orange; without irregular shapes patches on the dorsum; deep furrow along the margin of operculum absent........................... maxima Quaintance & Baker

3. Puparium hemicircular, wider than long; longitudinal and transverse molting suture both reaching the margin................................................................................................ lithocarpi Takahashi *

-. Puparium obovate, elliptical, longitudinal molting suture reaching anterior margin while transverse molting suture not reaching the margin........................................................................................... 4

4. Puparium obovate, white, with a longitudinal brownish black patch medially. without papillae on the dorsum.................................................................................................... citricola Young *

-. Puparium elliptical, pale yellow, with a longitudinal yellowish red patch in the middle; numerous papillae distributed on the dorsum............................................................................ cinnamomi Takahashi *