Neobemisia, Visnya, 1941

Gill, Raymond, 2012, A preliminary report on the World species of Bemisia Quaintance and Baker and its congeners (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) with a comparative analysis of morphological variation and its role in the recognition of species Raymond Gill, Insecta Mundi 2012 (219), pp. 1-99 : 8-9

Neobemisia , which were separated from Bemisia because of the circular shape of the transverse molting suture that is directed anteriorly and meets the opposing suture near the front margin,

forming a circular emergence opening for the adult. Type material of B. afer was not available for study and is not illustrated here, but it should be identical to the illustration of Bemisia hancocki Corbett ( Fig. 16). For a review of the morphological characteristics of B. afer and its puparial variability see Bink-Moenen (1983). Species level limits are unknown, but appear to be a diverse species complex. See Martin et al. (2000) for a detailed discussion of this issue and the possible synonymy of B. hancocki and B. afe r. One of the most striking morphological characters of B. afer and B. hancocki is the abrupt change in the sclerotization of the marginal crenulations in the vicinity of the tracheal folds, although several species in Eurasia and elsewhere also have this character.

However, this character is too variable and often not present to be of much use in comparison with other species in the complex, and it may be an environmentally induced character. Both B. afer and