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Dysmicoccus neobrevipes Beardsley 1959

  • 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

Dysmicoccus neobrevipes Beardsley, 1959

Dysmicoccus neobrevipes Beardsley, 1959: 31.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sarraméa County, 12. VI.2002, on roots of Ananas comosus, C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. (NZAC, CXMNC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Mille (2011).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — All over the New Caledonian Archipelago.

OTHER RECORDS. — North and South America, Asia, Pacific Ocean.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Ananas comosus, Annona spp. and Cucurbita pepo.

NOTES. — This species was found in association with D. brevipes on pineapple and also on Annona spp. Like the previous species, D. neobrevipes is a potential vector of Pineapple Mealybug Wilt Disease, and is therefore also rated as an economic pest.

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

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References

  • MILLE C. 2011. - Animaux nuisibles et utiles des jardins et vergers de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Editions SENC (Societe entomologique de Nouvelle-Caledonie), 200 p.