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Ferrisia malvastra

  • 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

Ferrisia malvastra (McDaniel, 1962)

Heliococcus malvastrus McDaniel, 1962: 323.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — La Foa County (IAC, SRFP), 29.XI.2008, E. hirta, C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. (NZAC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Williams & Watson (1988b).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — GrandeTerre (La Foa County).

OTHER RECORDS. — North and South America, Australasia, Pacific Ocean, Middle East, southern Africa, West Indies.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — On roots of species of an Asteraceae and on Euphorbia hirta.

NOTE. — Not rated as an economic species.

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

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References

  • MCDANIEL B. 1962. - A new species of scale insect from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas (Pseudococcidae, Coccoidea). Texas Journal of Science 14: 323 - 327.
  • WILLIAMS D. J. & WATSON G. W. 1988 b. - The Scales Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region, Part 2: The Mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK, 260 p.