Species Orchamoplatus mammaeferus (Quaintance & Baker, 1917)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aleuroplatus (Orchamus) mammaeferus 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].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM puparium slide, Indonesia, Java.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Russell, L.M. 1958. Orchamoplatus, an Australasian Genus (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 16: 389-410 [396].
• Aleuroplatus (Orchamus) samoanus Laing, F. 1927. Coccidae, Aphididae and Aleyrodidae. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 1(2): 35-45 [43] [junior objective synonym of Orchamoplatus mammaeferus (Quaintance & Baker, 1917)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, Western Samoa, Upolu, Apia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Russell, L.M. 1958. Orchamoplatus, an Australasian Genus (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 16: 389-410 [396].

  Type host:

   Codiaeum variegatum (L.) A.Juss. [EUPHORBIACEAE]

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Russell, L.M. 1958. Orchamoplatus, an Australasian Genus (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 16: 389-410 [393] (of Aleuroplatus (Orchamus) samoanus Liang)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: sap-feeder (associated flora: Cucurbita sp. [CUCURBITACEAE]; Codiaeum variegatum (L.) A.Juss. [EUPHORBIACEAE] Croton; Austromyrtus dulcis (C.T.White) L.S.Sm. [MYRTACEAE] Midgen Berry).

Nymphs: sap-feeder (associated flora: Codiaeum variegatum (L.) A.Juss. [EUPHORBIACEAE] Croton; Austromyrtus dulcis (C.T.White) L.S.Sm. [MYRTACEAE] Midgen Berry; Cucurbita sp. [CUCURBITACEAE]).

History of changes