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Issue: Vol. 68 No. 2: 3 Sept. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-09-03
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2025.68.2.2
Page range: 48-54
Abstract views: 226
PDF downloaded: 2

Monotypic no more: A second species of Bulgarialeurodes Corbett (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from Fujian, China, with diagnostic notes on its only congener

Key Lab for Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests and Their Ecological Regulation of Zhejiang Province, College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, Lin’an, Zhejiang 311300, China
State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Key Lab for Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests and Their Ecological Regulation of Zhejiang Province, College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, Lin’an, Zhejiang 311300, China
Key Lab for Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests and Their Ecological Regulation of Zhejiang Province, College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, Lin’an, Zhejiang 311300, China
Taxonomy Aleyrodinae puparium wax new species

Abstract

A new species of the hitherto monotypic whitefly genus Bulgarialeurodes Corbett is described and illustrated: Bulgarialeurodes longiceriferus sp. nov. from Fujian Province. With the new species, previous diagnoses of the genus are re-evaluated and refined. Diagnostic characters distinguishing the new species from its sole congener are provided. This represents the first record of the genus in the Oriental Region of China. Habitus images, line illustrations, and SEM microphotographs are provided.

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