Neobemisia, Visnya, 1941

Gill, Raymond, 2012, A preliminary report on the World species of Bemisia Quaintance and Baker and its congeners (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) with a comparative analysis of morphological variation and its role in the recognition of species Raymond Gill, Insecta Mundi 2012 (219), pp. 1-99 : 14

Neobemisia was synonymized first under Asterobemisia because it also has the circular molting suture found in that genus, then under Bemisia , partly because of its similarities to B. afer . There is however one major difference between these genera. Asterobemisia species have the pore/porette combinations non-adjacent to each other, with the porette closer to the margin in each case. Neobemisia species have the pore/porette combinations adjacent to each other with no particular alignment with the margin, as do the tabaci complex species. Otherwise, Neobemisia has the same morphological attributes of B. afer except that B. afer has non-adjacent pores. Unfortunately, species within the two genera Asterobemisia and Neobemisia have not been available for molecular analysis. It remains far from clear that these morphological differences justify treatment as distinct genera, or even distinct species. The genus Aleyrodes also appears to present the same problems, with not much variability between species and/or populations across the Northern Hemisphere.

The setal/protuberance variability patterns found in Bemisia seem, so far, unique to the genus.

But puparial and setal variability occurs in many whitefly genera in the Aleyrodinae . The genus