Aleuroclava aucubae (Homoptera: Aleyrodinea), a new adventive species for Russian Black Sea Coast, and its concomitant entomoparasitic fungus Conoideocrella luteorostrata (Ascomycota: Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae)

I.A. Gavrilov-Zimin & B.A. Borisov

Abstract. An Oriental species of whiteflies, Aleuroclava aucubae (Kuwana, 1911), was collected for the first time from the territory of Russia (the Black Sea Coast of Russian Caucasus, Sochi National Park). The species was found to form dense colonies of ultimolarvae (pseudopupae) on leaves of Ficus carica and Ulmus glabra. Some of the ultimolarvae were infected by the fungus Conoideocrella luteorostrata (Zimmermann, 1901) Johnson et al., 2009. A morphological description of the pseudopupa of A. aucubae, with the original figure and photos are provided.

Key words: alien species, whiteflies, Sochi National Park, morphological description, ecological association, Aleyrodidae

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2020, 29(1): 3–10 ▪ Published online 2 March 2020

https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2020.29.1.3 ▪ Open full article

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