New Zealand Aleyrodidae — Dumbleton 
Quaintance and Baker (1917) remark that 
fodiens is not a typical Dialeurodes . Although 
it is subcircular rather than oval and the 
lingula is not noticeably knobbed it would 
appear to fit the genus Aleyrodes best and I 
have returned it to that genus. 
Aleyrodes winterae Takahashi 
Figs. 22, 23 
Aleyrodes winterae Takahashi 1937: 251-253. 
LARVA: Unknown. 
PUPAL CASE: (Fig. 22). Length 0.85-0.97 
mm., width 0.72-0.81 mm. Colour light yel- 
lowish-brown. Shape subcircular, flat but 
slightly raised, sides not vertical. Margin 
(Fig. 23 a) obscurely and irregularly crenulate. 
No thoracic or abdominal tracheal folds, 
pores or combs. Submargin indicated by a 
faint line anteriorly. Posterior marginal setae 
present. One pair of minute paramedian setae 
in cephalic region and one pair on each of the 
first and eighth abdominal segments. Ten sub- 
marginal setae on each side, six on the cephalo- 
thorax and four on the abdomen. Caudal 
Fig. 22. Aleyrodes winterae Takahashi. Pupal case, 
dorsal. 
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Fig. 23. Aleyrodes winterae Takahashi. Pupal case: 
a. Margin and seta; b, vasiform orifice. 
setae not differentiated from submarginal 
setae. There are paired paramedian wrinkled 
areas on the anterior borders of abdominal 
segments 2-6 inclusive and also on the meso- 
and meta-thorax. Faint paired paramedian 
pores on abdominal segments 1-7. Vasiform 
orifice (Fig. 23 b) 0.07 mm. long, 0.05 mm. 
wide, subtriangular, floor reticulate. Oper- 
culum 0.03 mm. long, 0.035 mm. wide, half 
filling orifice. Lingula finger-like, bluntly 
pointed, little constricted basally. 
adult: Unknown. 
cotypes: In the Department of Agriculture 
Research Institute, Formosa, and in the Brit- 
ish Museum. 
type locality: Palmerston North. Collect. 
W. Cottier. 
