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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Aleyrodoidea » Whiteflies (Aleyrodidae) » Aleyrodinae » Trialeurodes » Banded-winged Whitefly (Trialeurodes abutiloneus)
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Whitefly pupae on Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) - Trialeurodes abutiloneus
Copyright © 2012 tom murray

Whitefly pupae on Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) - Trialeurodes abutiloneus
Pepperell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
October 8, 2012
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Contributed by tom murray on 8 October, 2012 - 7:31pm
Last updated 25 August, 2017 - 11:46am

Question:
since these are dark in the center, might they be Whitefly parasitoids?
… MJ Hatfield, 17 October, 2015 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Good question
Maybe, but would all the larvae be affected the same way?
… tom murray, 17 October, 2015 - 7:06pm login or register to post comments

 
I don't know
but I'd guess it's possible that many could be parasitized.
I looked for more images on line and some whiteflies look like they do have dark centers in this (pupa?) stage. But with some of the ones I confined (reared), the dark ones had wasps emerge rather than whiteflies.
Having said this, I know nothing about whiteflies.
… MJ Hatfield, 17 October, 2015 - 8:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Ditto
I don't know anything about these whiteflies either:-)
… tom murray, 17 October, 2015 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

 
These are "pupae"
...and this species has a diagnostic dark dorsal stripe on the pupa.
… Matt Bertone, 25 August, 2017 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks.
I appreciate learning.
… MJ Hatfield, 25 August, 2017 - 12:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Whiteflies.
… tom murray, 10 October, 2012 - 6:54pm login or register to post comments

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