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Bemisia afer (Priesner & Hosny)
Link to DNA sequences COI sequences and their GenBank accession numbers:
Distribution Belize, Peru, Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador (Anderson and others 2001), Egypt, Greece, Sicily,Middle East, Ethiopian region, China, Comoro Islands, India, Pakistan, New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga (Martin 1987), Sudan, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Congo, Zaire, Uganda, Rhodesia, Malawi, South Africa (bink-Moenen 1983), and Australia, Martin (1999). (as in Anderson and others 2001). May be in Sulawesi (Martin 1987).
Host Range

Oligophagus. Species in the following families: Malvaceae, Labiateae, Sapindaceae, Myrtaceae (Anderson and others 2001); Lythraceae, Moraceae, Rutaceae (Mound and Halsey 1978)

Bemisia afer-group with distinctive puparia is usually found on Bocconia, a member of the Papaveracae

References

Anderson PK, Martin JH, Hernandez P, Laguna A. (2001). Bemisia afer sens. lat. (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) outbreak in the Americas. Florida Entomologist 84: 317-317.

Martin J. (2003). An inventory of whiteflies in Belize: what relevance for EWSN? EWSN Newsletter 15. Available from http://www.whitefly.org/EWSN_News04.htm Accessed 2003 Sep 12.

Martin JH. (1987). An identification guide to common whitefly pest species. Tropical Pest Management 33: 298-322.

Mound LA, Halsey SH. (1978). Whitefly of the World: A systematic catalogue of the Aleyrodidae (Homoptera) with host plant and natural enemy data. British Museum (Natural History): Chichester. 329p.

 


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