ENY 3005 Family Identification

Aleyrodidae is one of the many important families we lack the time to study in ENY 3005. The whiteflies are minute (1 to 3 mm), soft-bodied insects that look like tiny moths. Wings are opaque whitish and covered with a whitish powder. The hind wings are nearly as large as the front wings, a good character for distinguishing them from aphids, psyllids and scales.

The citrus whitefly and the silverleaf whitefly are several species that are serious pests in Florida.

• Page 134 in D. J. Borror and R. E. White. 1970. A Field Guide to the Insects. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Page 167 in R. G. Bland and H. E. Jaques. 1978. How to Know the Insects, 3rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Co. 409 p.
• Page 335 in D. J. Borror, C. A. Triplehorn, and N. F. Johnson. 1989. An Introduction to the Study of Insects, 6th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing. 875 p.
• Page 431 in H. V. Daly, J. T. Doyen, and A. H. Purcell III. 1998. Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. 680 p.

• Whitefly Catalog - An On-line Interactive Catalog of the Whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) of the World and Their Parasites and Predators
• Sweetpotato/Silverleaf Whitefly - Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)
• Whitefly Pests of Citrus
• Citrus blackfly - Aleurocanthus woglumi Ashby

Cicadoidea -- Cicadidae, Membracidae, Cercopidae, Cicadellidae;
Fulgoroidea -- Delphacidae, Dictyopharidae, Flatidae, Acanaloniidae;
Psylloidea;
Aleyrodoidea -- Aleyrodidae;
Aphidoidea -- Aphididae;
Coccoidea -- Coccidae, Pseudococcidae, Diaspididae.