Aleurothrixus floccosus

Aleurothrixus floccosus on lemon leaf

Aleurothrixus floccosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Family:	Aleyrodidae
Genus:	Aleurothrixus
Species:	A. floccosus
Binomial name
Aleurothrixus floccosus (Maskell, 1896)

Aleurothrixus floccosus, the woolly whitefly, is a species of whitefly in the family Aleyrodidae. Probably native to the Neotropics; it is found in the Nearctic, Africa, India and Europe. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

This widespread species is a pest of many species of cultivated plants. ^[6]

References

1. "Aleurothrixus floccosus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Aleurothrixus floccosus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Aleurothrixus floccosus species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. Favret, Colin (2019). "Aphid species file online, Version 5.0" . Retrieved 2019-07-02.
5. Dubey, Anil Kumar (2023-03-31). "First record of three exotic whitefly pests (Hemiptera, Aleyrodidae) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India" . ENTOMON. 48 (1): 77–82. doi: 10.33307/entomon.v48i1.846 . ISSN   0377-9335.
6. CABI (2021). "CABI Compendium: Aleurothrixus floccosus (woolly whitefly)". doi:10.1079/cabicompendium.4538 . Retrieved 2024-07-26.