Published August 4, 2023 | Version v1
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Planococcus citri

  • 1. / PPQ c / o Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA / ARS / BARC-West, Beltsville, MD Gregory. A. Evans @ usda. gov
  • 2. Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Description

Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813)

(Figure 35, after Williams 2004).

Taxonomy. Dorthesia citri Risso 1813: 416. Type data. FRANCE: Menton, on Citrus spp. Pseudococcus citri phenacocciformis Brain 1915: 116. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Rosebank, on Bouvardia sp., synonymy according to Ezzat and McConnell 1956: 65; Hall 1926b: 6.

Planococcus citri (Risso); Ferris 1950: 165, change of combination; Ezzat 1962d: 164.

Hosts in Egypt. Tecoma capensis, Trifolium alexcasndrinum (Hall 1926b); on the roots of Arachis hypogaea, Citrullus vulgaris, Gynandropsis pentaphylla, Orobanche, Pluchea dioscoridis, Solanum tuberosum, Solanum lycopersicum, Solanum nigrum and Zygophyllum (Hosny 1939).

Distribution in Egypt. Mataria (Hall 1926b); Alexandra, Barrage, Bilbeis, Dokki, El-Max, Ein-el-Sheikh, Khargah and Mansourah (Hosny 1939).

Remarks. This is a very polyphagous, cosmopolitan species known to occur in Egypt since 1926.

Notes

Published as part of Evans, Gregory A. & Abd-Rabou, Shaaban, 2023, The mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) of Egypt, pp. 1-83 in Insecta Mundi 2023 (999) on page 23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10832115

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Risso
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Pseudococcidae
Genus
Planococcus
Species
citri
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813) sec. Evans & Abd-Rabou, 2023

References

  • Risso A. 1813. Memoire sur l'histoire naturelle des oranges, bigaradiers, limettiers, cedratiers limoniers ou citroniers, cultives dans le department des alpes maritimes. Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 20: 169 - 212, 401 - 431.
  • Williams DJ. 2004. Mealybugs of southern Asia. Southdene; London. 896 p.
  • Brain CK. 1915. The Coccidae of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. Cape Town 5: 65 - 194.
  • Ezzat YM, McConnell HS. 1956. A classification of the mealybug tribe Planococcini (Pseudococcidae: Homoptera). Bulletin of the Maryland Agriculture Experiment Station A-e 84: 1 - 108.
  • Hall WJ. 1926 b. Miscellaneous notes on Egyptian Coccidae with descriptions of three new species. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique d'Egypte 10: 267 - 287.
  • Ferris GF. 1950. Atlas of the scale insects of North America. (ser. 5). The Pseudococcidae (Part I). Stanford University Press; Palo Alto, California. 278 p.
  • Ezzat YM. 1962 d. A synopsis of the family Pseudococcidae as known in Egypt, U. A. R. [Homoptera: Coccoidea]. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique d'Egypte 46: 155 - 170.
  • Hosny MM. 1939. On coccids found on roots of plants in Egypt. Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Services 237: 1 - 21.