Genus Rhachisphora Quaintance & Baker, 1917

Museums

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• Rhachisphora 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 [430] [first introduced as a subgenus of Dialeurodes Cockerell, 1902].

  Type species:

   Dialeurodes (Rhachisphora) trilobitoides Quaintance & Baker, 1917 by original designation.
• Greeniella David, B.V. 1993. The whitefly of Sri Lanka (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae). Frederick Institute of Plant Protection and Toxicology, Entomological Series 2 3: 1-32 [22] [junior homonym of Greeniella Cockerell, 1897 (Coccoidea, Diaspididae)].

  Type species:

   Rhachisphora capitatis Corbett, 1926 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [95] (of Greeniella David, 1993)

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)

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. [95]

General References

Takahashi, R. 1952. Some Malayan species of Aleyrodidae (Homoptera). Mushi 24: 21-27 [22] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement raised to full genus (by inference))

History of changes