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Saissetia oleae

  • 1. Institut agronomique néo-calédonien, IAC, Axe 1, Station de Recherches fruitières de Pocquereux, Laboratoire d'Entomologie appliquée, BP 32, 98880 La Foa (New Caledonia) mille @ iac. nc
  • 2. Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170 Auckland Mail Centre, Auckland 1142 (New Zealand)
  • 3. Institut agronomique néo-calédonien, IAC, Axe 1, Station de Recherches fruitières de Pocquereux, Laboratoire d'Entomologie appliquée, BP 32, 98880 La Foa (New Caledonia) scazeres @ iac. nc
  • 4. Institut méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix-Marseille Université, UMR CNRS IRD Université d'Avignon, UMR 237 IRD, Centre IRD Nouméa, BP A 5, 98848 Nouméa cedex (New Caledonia) herve. jourdan @ ird. fr Published on 24 June 2016

Description

Saissetia oleae (Olivier, 1791)

Coccus oleae Olivier, 1791: 95.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — La Foa County (Nili), 11.VIII.2008, on roots of an unknown plant, C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. (NZAC, CXMNC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Cohic (1956, 1958a).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Grande Terre (La Foa County).

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Annona spp., Citrus spp., Erythrina spp., Ficus spp., Musa sapientum, Olea europea (Mille 2011).

OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan.

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. — Encyrtus infelix (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), Scutellista caerulea (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), Cryptolaemus montrouzieri (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).

NOTE. — Not rated as a harmful pest species. According to Cohic (1958a), this species was the rarest amongst the Saissetia species in New Caledonia.

Notes

Published as part of Mille, Christian, Henderson, Rosa C., Cazères, Sylvie & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Checklist of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) of New Caledonia, pp. 129-176 in Zoosystema 38 (2) on page 135, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4578222

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Olivier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Coccidae
Genus
Saissetia
Species
oleae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Saissetia oleae (Olivier, 1791) sec. Mille, Henderson, Cazères & Jourdan, 2016

References

  • OLIVIER G. A. 1791. - Cochenille. Coccus. Genre d'insectes de la premiere section de l'ordre des Hemipteres. Encyclopedie methodique, 85 - 100.
  • COHIC F. 1956. - Parasites animaux des plantes cultivees en Nouvelle- Caledonie et Dependances. Institut francais d'Oceanie, Noumea, 92 p.
  • COHIC F. 1958 a. - Contribution a l'etude des cochenilles d'interet economique de Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependances. South Pacific Commission, Technical Paper 116: 35 p.
  • MILLE C. 2011. - Animaux nuisibles et utiles des jardins et vergers de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Editions SENC (Societe entomologique de Nouvelle-Caledonie), 200 p.