Tetraleurodes confusa Nakahara, 1995

Martin, Jon H., 2005, Whiteflies of Belize (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Part 2 - a review of the subfamily Aleyrodinae Westwood, Zootaxa 1098 (1), pp. 1-116 : 51-52

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1098.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5054398
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scientific name	Tetraleurodes confusa Nakahara
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Tetraleurodes confusa Nakahara View in CoL

(Figs 57, 119)

Tetraleurodes confusa Nakahara, 1995: 125–127 View in CoL . Holotype, USA (Florida).

DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical Region: Belize, Puerto Rico; Nearctic Region: USA (Florida, Mississippi).

COMMENTS. Most of the material upon which the description was based was fieldcollected in Florida, where it is evidently very common. In Belize, it is represented by a small number of specimens taken from avocado. The minute differences used to differentiate T. confusa from T. perseae (which was described by Nakahara in the same 1995 paper, and see p. 7 here) may prove to be intraspecific variation, especially when the occurrence of both nominal species on avocado is taken into account.