Thread subject: Diptera.info :: White flies

Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 16-01-2009 07:45
#1
The flies in the picture below are very small, about 1-2mm long. They are attracted to light and many times I find them dead around the light bulb or beneath it. Here, they are beneath a banana frond. They seem to have some white threads coming out of their bodies. Magnified at nearly 1:1, pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Posted by Patrycja on 16-01-2009 09:03
#2
These insects belong to Hemiptera. It is a species of Aleurodina. Maybe Trialeurodes sp.?
Regards
Patrycja

Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 16-01-2009 16:52
#3
Thanks.
Can you please give some basic information about them?

Posted by pierred on 17-01-2009 08:16
#4
Hello,

A good page to start : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitefly