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Dactylopius opuntiae

  • 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

Dactylopius opuntiae (Cockerell, 1896)

Coccus cacti opuntiae Cockerell, 1896: 35.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Moindou County (Teremba), 20. VI.2001, on leaves of Opuntia?ficus-indica (Prickly Pear, “Figuier de Barbarie”), J-P. Kataoui coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. (NZAC, CXMNC); Boulouparis County (Îlot Daussy), 8.VIII.2009, on leaves of Opuntia spp., H. Jourdan coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. (NZAC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Williams & Watson (1990).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Grande Terre (Boulouparis and Moindou counties).

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Opuntia spp. (Cochereau & Mille, 2008).

OTHER RECORDS. — Australasia, Central Europe, West Indies, Indian Ocean, Central and South America, southern Africa, South-East Asia, central Pacific.

NOTE. — For more information, see below the section “Erroneous records from 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 pages 135-136, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4578222

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References

  • COCKERELL T. D. A. 1896. - Notes and descriptions of the new Coccidae collected in Mexico by Prof. C. H. T. Townsend. Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, Technical Series 4: 31 - 39.
  • WILLIAMS D. J. & WATSON G. W. 1990. - The Scales Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region, Part 3: The Soft Scales (Coccidae) and Other Families. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK, 268 p.
  • COCHEREAU P. & MILLE C. 2008. - La lutte contre les mauvaises herbes en Nouvelle-Caledonie - Weeds control in New Caledonia, 104 - 111., Actes de l'atelier de travail regional sur les plantes envahissantes des espaces pastoraux, in BLANFORT V. & ORAPA W. (Eds), Ecologie, impacts et gestion des plantes envahissantes dans les espaces pastoraux. IAC, SPC, Suva, 01 - 01 - 2008, 2428.