Siphoninus phillyreae (Haliday) 1835

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 : 16

Siphoninus phillyreae (Haliday) 1835

Diagnosis. Puparium: Habitus. Normally oval-shaped, pale with central submedian waxy bundles. Slide mounted specimen-Lateral margin. Crenulated with dentate caudal tracheal cleft armed with 12- 13 teeth. Dorsum. Transverse molting suture terminates well before the margin curving upwards slightly at the apex but not meeting the T 3 segmental suture. Covered with siphon-like tubes of varying lengths. Brown stripe present medially from the cephalothorax past the vasiform orifice. Venter. Caudal cleft is differentiated into a series of 14 fleshy, finger-like projects. Legs unarmed. Pores. None observed. Chaetotaxy. Long cephalic, A 1, A 8 (anterior to the vasiform orifice) and caudal setal pairs present. Submargin with a series of flagellate setae from the cephalothorax to the cauda.

Nevada distribution. Calico Basin (Clark County) ; Pahrump (Nye County) ; Reno , (Washoe County) .