Table 1. Four species of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci complex collected from Zhejiang, Yunnan and Guangdong Province of China and used in the experiments.

Putative species (biotype names associated)	Date of collection	Locality of collection	Source plant	mtCOI GenBank accession no.
MEAM1 (B)	Sept. 2012	Hangzhou, Zhejiang	Cabbage	KM821540
MED (Q)	June 2009	Ningbo, Zhejiang	Cayenne pepper	GQ371165
Asia 1 (H, M, NA)	Sept. 2012	Honghe, Yunnan	Sweet potato	KC540757
Asia II 7 (Cv)	July 2013	Gaoyao, Guangdong	Hibiscus	KM821541