Bemisia tabaci has long been considered a complex species. It rose to global prominence in
the 1980s owing to the global invasion by the commonly named B biotype. Since then, the …

Bemisia tabaci was described over 100 years ago and has since become one of the most
important pests worldwide in subtropical and tropical agriculture as well as in greenhouse …

The biotype or host-races concept with respect to Bemisia tabaci is reviewed. The worldwide
dispersal and impact of the'b-biotype', the impact of the b-biotype on agriculture, molecular …

Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) currently is believed to be a species complex, with many
biotypes and two described extant cryptic species, B. tabaci and Bemisia argentifolii Bellows …

▪ Abstract Tracking the movement of insects in their natural habitat is essential for
understanding their basic biology, demography, and ethology. A wide variety of markers …

Abstract Mitochondrial 16S (~ 550 bp) and cytochrome oxidase I (COI)(~ 700 bp) sequences
were utilized as markers to reconstruct a phylogeography for representative populations or …

Eighteen populations of Bemisia tabaci, collected from different geographic locations (North
& Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe), were studied to …

Resistance monitoring for Bemisia tabaci field populations to the juvenile hormone mimic,
pyriproxyfen, was conducted from 1996 to 2003 in commercial cotton fields in two areas of …

The two most damaging biotypes of Bemisia tabaci, B and Q, have both evolved strong
resistance to the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid. The major mechanism in all …

An introduced whitefly species, responsible for over a half billion dollars in damage to US
agricultural production in 1991, is morphologically indistinguishable from Bemisia tabaci …