Studies on Aleurodidae

Abstract

There are some references on the study of morphology of the Homoptera in which Cicada has been taken as a basis for the generalised structure. In the sub-order Sternorhyncha paylla has been studied, but there are hardly any references directly dealing with the Aleurodidae or any particular species except the general morphological and anatomical features described by Quaintance and Baker (l913) in their "Classification of the Aleurodidae, Part I.". No one has studied the structure of any of the British species.

In the following pages I have described in detail the morphology of all the stages, and some of the anatomical features of A. brassicae, and compared with that three or four other species whose life history has been studied . I propose to discuss here the morphological features of some of the British species . In all I came across 15 species all of which belong to sub family Aleurodinae.