Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood), 1915

Martin, Jon H., 2005, Whiteflies of Belize (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Part 2 - a review of the subfamily Aleyrodinae Westwood, Zootaxa 1098 (1), pp. 1-116 : 59

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1098.1.1

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scientific name

Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood)
status

 

Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) View in CoL

( Figs 67 View FIGURE 67 , 70–72)

Aleurodes vaporariorum Westwood, 1856: 852 . Syntypes, England.

Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) Quaintance & Baker, 1915 View in CoL : xi.

DISTRIBUTION. Cosmopolitan, but less common in Oriental and Austro­Oriental Regions, and usually found under glass in cooler temperate regions.

COMMENTS. T. vaporariorum has long been known as a worldwide pest, particularly of herbaceous crops under glass. This has led to its often­used common name, the glasshouse whitefly. It was assumed by Westwood (almost certainly correctly) to be a New World native, with the descriptive material suspected of having been imported to England from Mexico. The T. vaporariorum ­group is one of Russell’s (1948) North American species assemblages.

Although less notorious than the Bemisia tabaci ­group, T. vaporariorum is nonetheless a serious and widespread pest that causes significant economic damage, especially amongst covered vegetable and foliage crops. This is reflected in a large literature on aspects of this species. Despite being a New World native, there are occasional damaging local population explosions in the region: a recent example involved the near­death of a hedge of Lantana camara on a university campus in Quito, Ecuador in 2005 (personal observations, material in BMNH).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Aleyrodidae

Genus

Trialeurodes

Loc

Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood)

Martin, Jon H. 2005
2005
Loc

Aleurodes vaporariorum

Westwood, J. O. 1856: 852
1856
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