Table 1 Sample numbers of B. tabaci and non-tabaci species collected from cassava and weed species in Uganda in 2013.

From: African ancestry of New World, Bemisia tabaci-whitefly species

Plant/Whitefly species

SSA1

SSA2

SSA6

SSA9

SSA10

SSA11

SSA12

SSA13

MEAM1

MEAM2

MED

IO

B. Uganda1

Total

Manihot esculenta (Cassava)

0

0

0

1

8

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

9

Pavonia urens

1

1

3

1

0

3

0

0

1

5

12

0

1

27

Euphorbia heterophylla

8

1

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

3

16

Cleome gynandra

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

9

0

3

14

Vernonia amygdalina

3

0

2

0

1

0

0

0

0

3

7

0

2

18

Commelina benghalensis

5

2

0

1

1

0

18

2

0

0

4

0

4

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  1. Putative species were assigned based on their partial mtCO1 sequences according to Dinsdale et al. (2010). The abbreviations for the whitefly species are as follows: SSA is sub-Saharan Africa, MEAM is Middle East-Asia Minor, MED is Mediterranean, IO is Indian Ocean and B. Uganda1 is Bemisia Uganda 1.