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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Tetraleurodes mori - Mulberry Whitefly

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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 Tetraleurodes
Species mori (Mulberry Whitefly)
Explanation of Names
Tetraleurodes mori (Quaintance, 1899)
Range
e. US to Calif. to S. America / Caribbean - Map (1)
Food
Hosts include mahonia, hackberry, mountain laurel, sweetgum, maple, dogwood, sycamore, citrus, and mulberry.
Remarks
Probably introduced from tropical, subtropical regions.
Print References
Cranshaw, W. 2004. Garden Insects of North America. Princeton University Press.
Internet References
Entomotropica. 2006. In Spanish, with excellent illustrations