“…In Brazil, five lace bug species (Hemiptera: Tingidae) have been reported in cassava plants: Vatiga varianta Drake, 1930, V. cassiae Drake & Hambleton, 1934, V. illudens Drake, 1922, V. manihotae Drake, 1922, and Gargaphia opima Drake, 1931(Bellotti, Smith, & Lapointe, 1999Bellotti, 2002;Santos, Coelho, & Wengrat, 2019). The whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Aleurotrachelus socialis Bondar, 1923, Trialeurodes variabilis Quaintance, 1900, Bemisia tuberculata Bondar, 1923, and Aleurothrixus aepim (Goeldi, 1886 have also been frequently reported (M. R. V. Oliveira, Moretzshon, Queiroz, Lago, & Lima, 2001;Bellotti, 2002;Rheinheimer et al, 2009;Pietrowski, Rheinheimer, Miranda, Wengrat, & Barilli, 2014).…”