genus Bemisia


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Noun1.genus Bemisia - sweet-potato whiteflygenus Bemisia - sweet-potato whitefly    
Bemisia
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
Aleyrodidae, family Aleyrodidae - whiteflies
sweet-potato whitefly - a variety of whitefly
Bemisia tabaci, poinsettia strain, superbug - a strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias
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The only other instance of an Ablerus species attacking a whitefly in the genus Bemisia is Ablerus inquirenda Silvestri parasitizing Bemisia (as Lipaleyrodes) euphorbiae (David and Subramaniam) (Evans 2007).
Eretmocerus hayati appears to display a precise level of host specificity limited to the genus Bemisia (De Barro & Coombs 2009), a trait possibly shared by other Eretmocerus from the Old World that have been reported only from this genus (e.g., Er.
An updated list of parasitoid hymenoptera reared from the Bemisia tabaci species complex (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

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