Aleurilobini

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 Aleurilobini

This tribe was proposed by Takahashi (1954), for five genera based on Japanese species ( Acanthobemisia , Aleurolobus , Apobemisia , Bemisia , Parabemisia ). All studied species of Aleurolobus including the type-species, A. marlatti (Quaintance) , were recovered in the same clade but not as a monophyletic group. The only examined species of Apobemisa, A. kuwanai (Takahashi) (the type-species), was not found with Aleurolobus in the same clade, and the type-species of Bemisia (not recovered as a monophyletic genus), B. tabaci , was never recovered either with Aleurolobus or Apobemisia . The type-species of Parabemisia was not studied but the five examined species did not form a clade. Acanthobemisia and the four species of Parabemisia were only recovered in the same clade in the strict consensus tree of MPTs-SAW-MaxRI ( Figure 14 ). David (1990) later transferred Bemisia to a separate tribe, Bemisini (see below), but Takahashi’s Aleurolobini , even excluding Bemisia , was not supported in this study.

David (1990) and Regu and David (1993) classified six genera from India in this tribe (Appendix A). Only the type-species of Aleuropapillatus and Orientaleyrodes were studied and these appeared in two distantly separated clades. Africaleurodes was found as a monophyletic genus, but did not form a clade with the other five genera. Two examined species of Asterochiton (but not the type-species) were recovered on two different branches. All species of Aleurolobus and Crescentaleyrodes were found in the same clade ( Figures 13 , 14 and 19 ), and the possible monophyly of the latter will be discussed later.

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.

Figure 19. One of the clades of the strict consensus tree of UW-MPTs. Figures above branches show bootstrap and Jacknife (underlined figures) values. Black rectangular and the figure below indicate the Bremer support. (A) Aleuroparadoxus arctostaphyli Russell; (B) Harpaleyrodes tuberculata Bink-Moenen; (C) Bellitudo jamaicae Russell; (D) Aleurolobus marlatti (Quaintance); (E) Crescentaleyrodes semilunaris (Corbett); (F) Aleyrodiella lamellifera Danzig; (G) Rositaleyrodes oplismeni (Takahashi); (H) Dialeurolobus rhamni Bink-Moenen; (I) Dialeurodes erythrinae Corbett; (J) Heterobemisia alba Takahashi.