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Published September 25, 2014 | Version v1
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Phenacoccus peruvianus Granara de Willink 2007

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Earth Systems, Division of Rural Sciences and Food Systems, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
  • 2. Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi agroalimentari e ambientali, University of Catania, Italy.
  • 3. Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, California, U. S. A.

Description

● Phenacoccus peruvianus Granara de Willink in Granara de Willink & Szumik, 2007

First record from the Maltese Islands of this Neotropical species, which was first introduced to Europe (Spain) in 1999 (Beltrà et al., 2010) on nursery plants, and has spread since to the United Kingdom and several European countries in the Mediterranean basin (Beltrà et al., 2010; Gkounti & Milonas, 2013).

Material examined: MALTA, Valletta, Upper Barrakka Gardens, 13.ii.2012, immatures on Bougainvillea sp., CM; Mdina, 15.ii.2012, immatures on Bougainvillea sp., CM; Qawra, 16/ 17.ii.2012, several adult ♀♀ on Bougainvillea sp., CM; Zejtun, 12.iv.2012, several adult ♀♀ on Bougainvillea sp., DM.

Notes

Published as part of Mifsud, David, Mazzeo, Gaetana, Russo, Agatino & Watson, Gillian W., 2014, The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago, pp. 499-525 in Zootaxa 3866 (4) on page 515, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4930613

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC0D62C47BFF87A1F9AFF2D82522DE

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4930613 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC5751AC46BFF97A16EAB3DDC4B273D (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/362D4DC7-7505-42C1-B438-9B195B48125C (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03FC0D62C47BFF87A1F9AFF2D82522DE (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/185471589 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/4339/taxon/03FC0D62C47BFF87A1F9AFF2D82522DE.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CM , DM
Event date
2012-02-13 , 2012-02-15 , 2012-02-17 , 2012-04-12
Family
Pseudococcidae
Genus
Phenacoccus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Granara de Willink
Species
peruvianus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2012-02-13 , 2012-02-15 , 2012-02-17 , 2012-04-12
Taxonomic concept label
Phenacoccus peruvianus de, 2007 sec. Mifsud, Mazzeo, Russo & Watson, 2014

References

  • Beltra, A., Soto, A., Germain, J. - F., Matile-Ferrero, D., Mazzeo, G., Pellizzari, G., Russo, A., Franco, J. C. & Williams, D. J. (2010) The bougainvillea mealybug Phenacoccus peruvianus Granara de Willink, 2007, a rapid invader from South America to Europe. Entomologia Hellenica, 19, 137 - 143.
  • Gkounti, V. & Milonas, P. (2013) First record of the bougainvillea mealybug Phenacoccus peruvianus in Greece. Entomologia Helenica, 22, 16 - 18.