EPPO Global Database

Aleurocanthus camelliae(ALECCA)

Distribution details in China

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2022: Present, no details
Comments
Probably native to China (lacking details on its distribution, also due to confusion with A. spiniferus).
References
* Andrianto E, Kasai A (2022) Wolbachia in black spiny whiteflies and their new parasitoid wasp in Japan: evidence of the distinct infection status on Aleurocanthus camelliae cryptic species complex. Insects, 13, 788. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13090788

* Chen S-C, Wang X-Q, Li P-W, Hu X, Wang J-J, Peng P (2016) The complete mitochondrial genome of Aleurocanthus camelliae: insights into gene arrangement and genome organization within the family Aleyrodidae. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 17(11), 1843. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms17111843
------- Specimens from a tea plantation in Yongchuan (Chongqing).

* Chen Y, Yang W, Zhou YF, Liu HF, Yang MF (2018) Identification of the citrus spiny whitefly in tea-infesting populations in Guizhou. Acta Agriculturae Universitatis Jiangxiensis 40(3), 494-501. 10.https://doi.org/10.13836/j.jjau.2018065
------- Tea-infesting populations studied in Guizhou were A. camelliae (and not A. spiniferus).

* Jansen M, Porcelli F (2018) Aleurocanthus camelliae (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), a species possibly new for the European fauna of a genus in great need of revision. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 161, 63–78.
-------- Outbreaks reported in all tea-growing regions (as A. spiniferus).