(Homoptera: Aleyrodidae: Aleyrodinae)
Issue No. 292
Avas B. Hamon and Victor Salguero
February, 1987
Introduction
Bemisia tabaci was first described as Aleurodes tabaci by Gennadius (1889) from Nicotiana sp., and was known from Florida as early as 1900 (Quaintance 1900). It is variously referred to in the literature as tobacco whitefly, cotton whitefly, or as the Entomological Society of America approved common name, sweetpotato whitefly.