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Ferrisia meridionalis Williams 1985

  • 1. Unidad de Entomología, Departamento de Protección Vegetal, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2. Imamoglu Vocational School, Çukurova University, 01330, Adana, Turkey & Çukurova University, Biotechnology Application Research Centre, Balcalı, Adana, Turkey
  • 3. Unidad de Entomología, Departamento de Protección Vegetal, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay & cbasso. bis @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0427 - 3631

Description

Ferrisia meridionalis Williams

Material studied. URUGUAY: Juanicó, ex fruits of Cydonia oblonga (Rosaceae), 34°34’00.8”S 56°16’16.0”W, 6.ix.2018, coll. Pacheco da Silva, V.C., 2 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 87.

Hosts. Polyphagous, reported on Ambrosia tenuifolia (Asteraceae), Manihot esculenta (Euphorbiaceae) (Williams 1985), Baccharis sp. (Asteraceae), Glycine max (Fabaceae), Hypericum perforatum (Clusiaceae) (Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992), and Diospyros kaki (Ebenaceae) (Pacheco da Silva et al. 2017).

Distribution. Neotropical region (García Morales et al. 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Pacheco Da Silva, Vitor C., Kaydan, Mehmet Bora & Basso, Cesar, 2020, Pseudococcidae (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) in Uruguay: morphological identification and molecular characterization, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 501-520 in Zootaxa 4894 (4) on page 510, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4316657

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
V, ECFA
Event date
2018-09-06
Verbatim event date
2018-09-06
Scientific name authorship
Williams
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Pseudococcidae
Genus
Ferrisia
Species
meridionalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ferrisia meridionalis Williams, 1985 sec. Da, Kaydan & Basso, 2020

References

  • Williams, D. J. (1985) A new species of Ferrisia (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on cassava (Manihot esculenta) from Paraguay and on ragweed (Ambrosia tanuifolia) from Argentina. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 75, 255 - 257. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300014334
  • Williams, D. J. & Granara de Willink, M. C. (1992) Mealybugs of Central and South America. CAB International, Wallingford, 635 pp.
  • Pacheco da Silva, V. C., Kaydan, M. B., Malausa, T., Germain, J. - F., Palero, F. & Botton M. (2017) Integrative taxonomy methods reveal high mealybug (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) diversity in southern Brazilian fruit crops. Scientific Reports, 7, 15741, 1 - 9. https: // doi. org / 10.1038 / s 41598 - 017 - 15983 - 5
  • Garcia Morales, M., Denno, B., Miller, D. R., Miller, G. L., Ben-Dov, Y. & Hardy, N. B. (2016) ScaleNet: a literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics. Available from: http: // www. scalenet. info (accessed 1 December 2019)