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Aleurodicus cocois

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are "crawlers" but stay in the vicinity of the spiral. The second, third and fourth instars are immobile and feed by sucking sap from the leaf; they secrete wax and develop a marginal fringe of white waxy strands. After
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Goiana, Elaine S.S.; Dias-Pini, Nivia S.; Muniz, Celli R.; Soares, Arlete A.; Alves, James C.; Vidal-Neto, Francisco C.; Da Silva, Cherre S. Bezerra (2020). "Dwarf-cashew resistance to whitefly (
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The eggs are laid on the undersides of leaves in small batches in a spiral pattern 2 cm (1 in) or more across, close to wax patches secreted by the female. The first
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but not its natural enemies, and the whitefly attacked virtually every tree on the island and devastated production.
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is found in the West Indies, Mexico, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil and Peru. It is a serious
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After a hurricane struck Barbados in 1831, the planting of imported coconut palms accidentally introduced
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of the genus. In other parts of the world, there are certain other species of whitefly that attack
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It has been found that some clones of dwarf cashew are more susceptible to attack by
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than are others; the most resistant clones have a greater number of glandular
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This species was first described in 1846 by the English entomologist
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palms, which are known locally as "coconut whitefly"; these include
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on their leaves, and contain a higher proportion of
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Sternorrhyncha
Aleyrodidae
Aleurodicus
Binomial name
John Curtis
Synonyms
whitefly
Aleyrodidae
John Curtis
Aleurodicus
John William Douglas
junior synonym
type species
coconut
Aleurodicus destructor
Aleurodicus dispersus
Aleurodicus pulvinatus
Neotropics
instar
larvae
pupation
pest
cashew

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