A new species of whitefly, Aleuropleurocelus pseudogranulata Carapia-Ruiz & Sánchez-Flores sp. nov., collected from the underside of Cecropia obtusifolia (Bertol.) leaves, at Putla, Oaxaca, Mexico, is described. Microphotographs of morphological structures of the puparia were provided and how it differs from other related species of Aleuropleurocelus was discussed. Aleuropleurocelus ceanothi (Sampson) also was reported from Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, on Ceanothus leucodermis Greene and Ceanothus verrucosus Nutt.
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11 January 2021
Description of One New Species and New Records of the Genus Aleuropleurocelus from Mexico
Vicente Emilio Carapia-Ruiz,
Oscar Angel Sánchez-Flores,
Juana María Coronado-Blanco,
Enrique Ruíz-Cancino,
Antonio Castillo-Gutiérrez
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Southwestern Entomologist
Vol. 45 • No. 4
December 2020
Vol. 45 • No. 4
December 2020