Aleurocanthini

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 : 2452

Tribe Aleurocanthini

Three genera, viz. Aleurocanthus , Aleurotrachelus , and Pentaleyrodes , were placed in the Aleurocanthini by Takahashi (1954), and only Aleurocanthus by David (1990) for the whiteflies of Japan and India, respectively (Appendix A). As mentioned before, the latter excluding A. ceracroceus was found to be monophyletic and the monophyly of Aleurotrachelus even statistically rejected (Table II). However, the type-species of Aleurotrachelus , A. tracheifer (Quaintance) , was never recovered in the same clade either with Aleurocanthus or Pentaleyrodes in the strict consensus tree of UW-MPTs ( Figure 13 ), whereas in the strict consensus tree of MPTs-SAW-MaxRI ( Figure 14 ) it was found in a different clade from the Aleurocanthus clade within a big clade.

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.