Species Neomaskellia bergii (Signoret, 1868)

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• Aleurodes bergii Signoret, V. 1868. Essai monographique sur les aleurodes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 8: 369-402 [395].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) Mauritius.
• Aleurodes comata Maskell, W.M. 1896. Contributions towards a monograph of the Aleurodidae, a family of the Hemiptera - Homoptera. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 411-449 [426] [junior objective synonym of Neomaskellia bergii (Signoret, 1868)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NZAC puparium slide, Fiji.
  Paralectotype(s) USNM puparium slide (same data as lectotype), Fiji; NZAC 1 x 3rd instar, 1 fore & hind wing, 1 x ♂genitalia (same data as lectotype), Fiji.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Martin, Jon 1999. The Whitefly Fauna of Australia (Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae). A taxonomic account and identification guide. Technical Paper No. 38. Canberra : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 38 pp. 1-197. [85].
• Aleurodes sacchari Maskell, W.M. 1890. On some Aleurodidae from New Zealand and Fiji. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 22: 170-176 [171] [junior objective synonym of Neomaskellia bergii (Signoret, 1868)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NZAC, Fiji.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Quaintance, A.L. & Baker, A.C. 1914. Classification of the Aleyrodidae Part II. United States Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Entomology. Technical Series 27: 95-109 [104] (of Aleurodes sacchari Maskell)
• Martin, Jon 1999. The Whitefly Fauna of Australia (Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae). A taxonomic account and identification guide. Technical Paper No. 38. Canberra : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 38 pp. 1-197. [85] (of Aleurodes comata (Maskell))

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed.

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: Saccharum officinarum L. [POACEAE] Sugar Cane; Setaria palmifolia (J.Koenig) Stapf [POACEAE] Palm Grass; Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench [POACEAE] Millet, Sorghum).

Nymphs: sap-feeder (associated flora: Saccharum officinarum L. [POACEAE] Sugar Cane; Setaria palmifolia (J.Koenig) Stapf [POACEAE] Palm Grass; Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench [POACEAE] Millet, Sorghum).

Extra Ecological Information

Also many other grass hosts.

 

History of changes

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