Species Australeurodes operculobata (Martin & Carver, 1999)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dialeurolonga operculobata Martin, Jon & Carver, M. in Martin, Jon 1999. The Whitefly Fauna of Australia (Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae). A taxonomic account and identification guide. Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Publishing Vol. No. 38 pp. 1-197. [69].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC puparium slide, Qld, Ipswich.

  Type host:

   Leptospermum saundersi [MYRTACEAE]

Generic Combinations

• Australeurodes operculobata (Martin & Carver, 1999). —
  Dubey, A.K. in Dubey, A.K. & Ramamurthy, V.V. 2013. Dialeurolonga re-defined (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae): with a new genus and species from India, two new genera from Australia, and discussion of host-correlated puparial variation. Zootaxa 3616(6): 548-562 [551]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: sap-feeder (associated flora: Leptospermum scoparium 'Saundersii' [MYRTACEAE] (cultivar); Cinnamomum sp. [LAURACEAE]).

Nymphs: sap-feeder (associated flora: Leptospermum scoparium 'Saundersii' [MYRTACEAE]).

History of changes