Planococcus citri
Authors/Creators
- 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
(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.
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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.