Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Singhiella citrifolii
Mosca blanca, Cloudywinged whitefly
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Suborder
Heteroptera
Superfamily
Aleyrodoidea
Family
Aleyrodidae
Genus
Singhiella
Species
citrifolii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Aleyrodes citrifolii Morgan 1893, Aleyrodes nubifera Berger 1909, Dialeurodes citrifolii (Morgan) (Jensen 2001)
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 2000
Mode of introduction: Accidental
Introduction Pathway: Contaminant
Subpathway: Contaminant on plants (inc. seeds and plant associated material)
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: No data
- Liebhold, A. M. Turner, R. M., Bartlett, C. R., Bertelsmeier, C., Blake, R. E., Brockerhoff, E. G., Causton, C. E., Matsunaga, J. N., McKamey, S. H., Nahrung, H. F., Owen, C. L., Pureswaran, D. S., Roques, A., Schneider, S. A., Sanborn, A. F., & Yamanaka, T. (2024) Why so many Hemiptera invasions? Diversity and Distributions, 30, e13911. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13911
- Oquendo, J.R (2002) Invertebrados asociados a cultivos agrícolas de importancia económica en la isla Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador Undergraduate thesis. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
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"Galapagos Species Database, Singhiella citrifolii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16803. Accessed 2 November 2026.