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Diaspis bromeliae Coccoidea
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Description
Diaspis bromeliae (Kerner) — pineapple scale
Cosmopolitan, widespread in the Lesser Antilles, restricted to indoor plantings in cooler temperate regions; polyphagous, feeding on plants belonging to 12 families; pest of pineapple and other bromeliads. Recorded from Saint Lucia by Watson (2002) and Malumphy (2012).
Notes
Published as part of Malumphy, Chris, 2014, An annotated checklist of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles, pp. 69-86 in Zootaxa 3846 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4928537
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Coccoidea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Diaspididae
- Genus
- Diaspis
- Species
- bromeliae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Diaspis bromeliae (Kerner, 1778) sec. Malumphy, 2014
References
- Watson, G. W. (2002) Arthropods of Economic Importance: Diaspididae of the World. (Series Title: World Biodiversity Database). ETI Information Services (Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification), Berkshire, UK.