Aleurochitonini

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 Aleurochitonini

Sampson (1943) proposed this tribe on the basis of a single genus, Aleurochiton (Appendix A). Two of the four studied species of this genus, A. acerinus Haupt and A. aceris (Modeer) (the type-species), were recovered as forming a monophyletic group in this study ( Figures 13 and 14 ). Although in the strict consensus trees of MPTs-SAW-MaxCI and MPTs-SAW-MinCI (trees not presented), A. pseudoplatani Visnya also came out with the former two species, A. forbesii (Ashmead) was not recovered with them in the same clade in any analysis. Interestingly, Sampson (1943) erected a new subgenus, Nealeurochiton Sampson , to accommodate A. forbesii , but this was subsequently synonymized with Aleurochiton by Mound and Halsey (1978).

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.