Species Dialeurodes kirkaldyi (Kotinsky, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aleyrodes kirkaldyi Kotinsky, J. 1907. Aleyrodidae of Hawaii and Fiji with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Hawaii, Division of Entomology 2: 93-102 [95].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM Q.4107 puparium sklide, Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaiian Sugar Planters Experimental Station.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH puparia slides (total paralectotypes = ca 55 x puparia slides), Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaiian Sugar Planters Experimental Station; USNM puparia slides (total paralectotypes = ca 55 x puparia slides), Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaiian Sugar Planters Experimental Station.

  Type host:

   Jasminum grandiflorum L. [OLEACEAE]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: sap-feeder (associated flora: Lagerstroemia sp. [LYTHRACEAE]; Jasminum nitidum Skan [OLEACEAE]; Morinda sp. [RUBIACEAE]; Ficus sp. [MORACEAE]).

Nymphs: sap-feeder (associated flora: Lagerstroemia sp. [LYTHRACEAE]; Jasminum nitidum Skan [OLEACEAE]; Morinda sp. [RUBIACEAE]).

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