S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 49. (Budapest, 1988)
FOLIA XLIX ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK 1988 p. 117-121 New data to the knowledge of the whiteflies of the Palearctic Region (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) By F. KOZÁR and R. M. BINK-MOENEN (Received December 20, 1987) Abstract: Collections of whiteflies from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, G.D.R., Hungary, Italy, Poland, Rumania, and the USSR preserved at the Plant Protection Institute (Budapest, Hungary) resulted 15 species. Among them Aleu- rochiton acerinus, Aleurochiton aceris , Aleyrodes proletella, Asterobemisia obenbergeri and Siphoninus phillyreae new for Bulgaria, Aleurochiton acerinus new for France, Asterobemisia obenbergeri new for Hungary, and Aleurochiton pseudoplatani proved to be new for Rumania. The level of infestation, host plant data with several new ones, and localities of collections were also presented. The excellent world catalogue of MOUND and HALSEY (1978) is a great help in studying the distribution of whiteflies. There are also several good monographs about whiteflies of Middle and East Europe (DANZIG 1964, DOBREANU and MANOLACHE 1969, SZELEGIEWICZ 1979 and ZAHRADNIK 1963). On the base of these sources we determined the latest collections of the senior author. Among them several data proved to be new or important from zoogeographical and faunistical points of view. Distribution data are given according to MOUND and HALSEY (1978) or otherwise indicated. On the base of our data presented in this paper 14 species are shown to live in Hungary under the field conditions, including Aleyrodes (-Aleurodes) asari (Schrank, 1801), Siphoni nus immaculatus (Heeger, 1856) is also recorded by MOUND and HALSEY (1978). Further 4 species were shown from glasshouses ( Aleurotubulus nephrolepidis (Quintance, 1900), Ceraleurodicus kesselyaki (Visnya, 1941), Filicaleyrodes williamsi (Trehan, 1938), Tria- leurodes vaporariorum (Westwood, 1856) according to MOUND and HALSEY (1978). No zoogeographical relationship of B. cotesi has yet been proved with its south-eastern population. Further, the way of introduction of T. packardi is yet unknown, which was reported in the Palearctic Region only in Hungary (KOZÁR et al. 1987). Concerning Bulgaria the entomofaunistic literature has almost no reference to Aleyrodids. This indicates an imperfect knowledge of this fauna or perhaps the hard availability of the data of applied entomological sources. The identification of the species was made by microscopic slides of the puparia. The generic and species names were used according to MOUND and HALSEY (1978). In other case, the changes of the earlier names were given in parentheses. The collected dry material and also most of the microscopic slides were deposited in the collection of the Plant Protection Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest), while some of the slides were deposited in the collection of the junior author. All collecting data without special reference originate from the senior author. Collecting data marked with "F" (frequency) and the joined number show the density (level of infestation) of the given species, according to KOZÁR and DANZIG (1978). The identification numbers (in parentheses) refer to the collection of the senior author.
