Genus Orchamoplatus Russell, 1958

Museums

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• Orchamoplatus Russell, L.M. 1958. Orchamoplatus, an Australasian Genus (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 16: 389-410 [390] [substitute name for Orchamus Quaintance & Baker, 1917].
• Orchamus Quaintance, A.L. & Baker, A.C. 1917. A contribution to our knowledge of the whiteflies of the subfamily Aleurodinae (Aleyrodidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 51: 335-445 [400] [first introduced as a subgenus of Aleuroplatus Quaintance & Baker, 1914 junior homonym of Orchamus Stal, 1876 (Orthoptera)].

  Type species:

   Aleuroplatus (Orchamus) mammaeferus Quaintance & Baker, 1917 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dumbleton, L.J. 1956. The Australian Aleyrodidae (Hemiptera: Homoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 81: 159-183 [163] (raised Orchamus to full genus)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Diagnosis 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. [87]

History of changes