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Woolly Whitefly (Aleurothrixus floccosus)
Species
Aleurothrixus floccosus
- Woolly Whitefly
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder
Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)
Superfamily
Aleyrodoidea
Family
Aleyrodidae (Whiteflies)
Subfamily
Aleyrodinae
Genus
Aleurothrixus
Species
floccosus
(Woolly Whitefly)
Explanation of Names
Aleurothrixus floccosus
(Maskell 1896)
Range
probably of neotropical origin (most of its natural enemies are in South America) to the Neotropics, adventive elsewhere and now almost cosmopolitan in warmer climes
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1
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; in our area, so. US (Gulf States to AZ)
Food
polyphagous; host list in
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1
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Remarks
earliest record in our area: FL 1909 (not established at that time)
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2
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pest of citrus
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3
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Internet References
Species page
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2
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Fact sheet
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1
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Whitefly pests of Florida citrus
(Fasulo & Brooks 2012)
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3
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Works Cited
1.
Invasive Species Compendium (ISC)
2.
Key to whitefly of citrus in Florida (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae), by A.B. Hamon
3.
EDIS -- Electronic Data Information Source of UF/IFAS Extension
Contributed by
v belov
on 6 October, 2012 - 11:30am
Additional contributions by
Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 17 December, 2018 - 7:40am