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Agrophaspis buxtoni

  • 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

Agrophaspis buxtoni (Laing, 1933) *

Aonidia buxtoni Laing, 1933: 676.

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Cohic (1958a), Borschenius & Williams (1963).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — First found in La Tontouta (Païta County), in June 1925 (Borschenius & Williams 1963). West Coast of Grande Terre.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — On unknown Cyperaceae and “switch grass” (Panicum virgatum?).

NOTE. — This endemic species is quite rare.

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 136, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4578222

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References

  • LAING F. 1933. - The Coccidae of New Caledonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11: 675 - 678.
  • 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.