Morphology-Based Identification of Bemisia tabaci Cryptic Species Puparia via Embedded Group-Contrast Convolution Neural Network Analysis.

ABSTRACT: The Bemisia tabaci species complex is a group of tropical-subtropical hemipterans, some species of which have achieved global distribution over the past 150 years. Several species are regarded currently as among the world's most pernicious agricultural pests, causing a variety of damage types via direct feeding and plant-disease transmission. Long considered a single variable species, genetic, molecular and reproductive compatibility analyses have revealed that this "species" is actually a complex of between 24 and 48 morphologically cryptic species. However, determinations of which populations represent distinct species have been hampered by a failure to integrate genetic/molecular and morphological species-diagnoses. This, in turn, has limited the success of outbreak-control and eradicat

SUBMITTER: MacLeod N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9366445 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature