(Homoptera: Aleyrodidae: Aleyrodinae)
Issue No. 340
Avas B. Hamon
March, 1991
Introduction
The bandedwinged whitefly was described as Aleurodes abutilonea Haldeman, 1850 from Sida (Abutilon) abutilon collected in Pennsylvania. The known synonyms were given by Russell (1948) and Mound and Halsey (1978). Records of this whitefly in Florida date back to Quaintance (1899), who described the synonym Aleurodes rolfsii from specimens sent to Prof. P.H. Rolfs on a cultivated geranium in South Florida. At that time it was considered a severe pest on geranium (Quaintance, 1899). Presently, bandedwinged whitefly is an occasional economic pest of some ornamental plants in Florida.