Aleuroplatus berbericolus Quaintance and Baker 1917

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 : 7-8

Aleuroplatus berbericolus Quaintance and Baker 1917

Diagnosis. Puparium: Habitus. Chestnut brown in color; oval to elliptical in shape. Slide mounted specimen-Lateral margin. Dentate with truncate teeth; thoracic tracheal comb composed of three or four rather prominent tooth with serrate margins differentiated from the rest of the margin; caudal comb similar to tracheal comb. Dorsum. Transverse molting suture not curved-up abruptly at submargin. Vasiform orifice. Margin thickened lacking posterior inward projecting tooth; operculum subtriangular in shape, broad and rounded at the apex filling 50% of the orifice. Venter. from smooth to variously ornamented. Pores. Submarginal pores in multiple rows; subdorsum with irregularly scattered minute pore-like structures. Chaetotaxy. Cephalic setae not widened at base; A 8 setae slender and shorter than vasiform orifice.

Nevada distribution. Churchill ; Washoe ; Douglas ; and Clark Counties.