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Eriococcus araucariae Maskell 1879

  • 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

Eriococcus araucariae Maskell, 1879

Eriococcus araucariae Maskell, 1879: 218.

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

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — The species is restricted to coastal areas and does not attack the numerous montane Araucariaceae (Cohic 1958a).

OTHER RECORDS. — Africa, the Americas, Australasia, West Indies, Pacific Ocean, Europe, South-East Asia, Middle East, Indian Ocean, Far East.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Araucaria spp. (Cohic 1958a).

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. — Cryptolaemus montrouzieri (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).

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

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References

  • MASKELL W. M. 1879. - On some Coccidae in New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 11: 187 - 228.
  • 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.