One of the greatest challenges for farmers and plant protection practitioners worldwide is the management of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), which is not a single taxonomic entity, but a complex of many cryptic species (De Barro, Liu, Boykin, & Dinsdale, 2011) that diverge in a number of biological and genetic characteristics.
Distribution and dissemination of begomoviruses in Latin America and the Caribbean: Bemisia. In: Stansly, P.A., Naranjo, S.E., (ed.) Bionomics and management of a global pest.
Begomoviruses transmitted by the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci are wide spread in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, where they cause numerous diseases in dicotyledonous plants including cassava, pulses, vegetables, tobacco and cotton (Muniyappa and Veeresh, 1984; Harrison, 1985; Brown and Bird, 1992).
Su genoma bipartita es transmitido por Bemisia tabaci G y tiene como hospederos a diferentes dicotiledoneas como Capsicum spp., Solanum lycopersicum L., Nicotiana spp., Physalis spp., Solanum rostratum L., Cucurbita spp., Helianthus annuus L., Datura spp., Carica papaya L., Sorghum halepense L.
(2011) encontraron niveles moderados a altos de resistencia de Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius, 1889) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) a imidacloprid y thiamethoxam.