Description of One New Species and New Records of the Genus Aleuropleurocelus1 from Mexico

Abstract

A new species of whitefly, Aleuropleurocelus pseudogranulata Carapia-Ruiz & Sánchez-Flores sp. nov., collected from the underside of Cecropia obtusifolia (Bertol.) leaves, at Putla, Oaxaca, Mexico, is described. Microphotographs of morphological structures of the puparia were provided and how it differs from other related species of Aleuropleurocelus was discussed. Aleuropleurocelus ceanothi (Sampson) also was reported from Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, on Ceanothus leucodermis Greene and Ceanothus verrucosus Nutt.