Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)

Lee, Suhyeon & Suh, Soo-Jung, 2022, Whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) intercepted on plant product imported to South Korea from 2013 - 2021, Insecta Mundi 2022 (947), pp. 1-17 : 8

17. Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) ( Fig. 21 )

Diagnosis. Puparium pale, oval. Median moulting suture reaching margin, transverse moulting suture ending on subdorsum. Thoracic tracheal openings with subtle combs. Vasiform orifice elongate triangular, caudal furrow well defined by a pair of ridges. Caudal setae long and stout, longer than vasiform orifice.

Korean quarantine notes. This species was described from Greece (Western Palaearctic region) and was intercepted 1438 times at Korean ports from China, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Israel, Belgium, Netherlands, Kenya, South Africa, Canada, USA and Colombia and on a wide variety of host plants. In 1998, B. tabaci was reported as introduced in South Korea; this species is now a major pest in South Korea and causes severe damage to crops in greenhouses ( Park 2010; Lee 2019).

Figures

Figures 19–27. Eight species of whiteflies. 19–20) Aleurotrachelus sp., puparium and abdomen detail of the vasiform orifice.21) Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius), puparium. 22) Cockerelliella psidii (Corbett), puparium. 23) Crenidorsum aroidephagus Martin and Aguiar, puparium. 24) Dialeurodes citri (Ashmead), puparium. 25) Dialeurodes kirkaldyi (Kotinsky), puparium. 26) Dialeuropora decempuncta (Quaintance and Baker), puparium. 27) Massilieurodes sp., puparium.