Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
This species has hitherto been considered identical with Aleyrodes vaporariorum, the common greenhouse Aleyrodes of the tomato, cucumber, etc. A critical study of all stages of both the greenhouse Aleyrodes and the strawberry Aleyrodes, made at the Entomological Laboratory of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has resulted in finding structural differences between the two species in all the stages, except the egg and adult.
* As is customary in describing species of this genus, the specific characters are derived from the pupa. The description of this stage is therefore made complete in itself, and is sufficient to distinguish this from all other described species.