Published December 11, 2020 | Version v1
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Spilococcus mamillariae Coccoidea

  • 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

Spilococcus mamillariae (Bouche)

Material studied. URUGUAY: Montevideo, ex stalk of Mammillaria sp. (Cactaceae), 34°53’19.6”S 56°07’12.7”W, 3.xi.2018, coll. Pacheco da Silva, V.C., 6 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 158.

Hosts. Polyphagous, reported from 95 species belonging to 6 plant families, but mainly associated with Cactaceae, in which it is recorded on 89 species (García Morales et al. 2016).

Distribution. Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical and Palaearctic regions (García Morales et al. 2016). This is the first record of S. mamillariae on Uruguay.

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 517, 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
2018-11-03
Family
Pseudococcidae
Genus
Spilococcus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Coccoidea
Species
mamillariae
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2018-11-03
Taxonomic concept label
Spilococcus mamillariae (Bouche, 1844) sec. Da, Kaydan & Basso, 2020

References

  • 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)