Whitefly
| Whitefly Temporal range: | |
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| Whiteflies (Trialeurodes vaporariorum) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Superfamily: | Aleyrodoidea |
| Family: | Aleyrodidae Westwood, 1840 |
| Subfamilies | |
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Aleurodicinae | |
| Synonyms | |
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Aleurodidae | |
Whiteflies are hemipterans that typically feed on the undersides of plant leaves. They are classified in the family Aleyrodidae, the only family in the superfamily Aleyrodoidea. More than 1550 whitefly species have been described.