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Heliococcus summervillei Brookes 1978

  • 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

Heliococcus summervillei Brookes, 1978

Heliococcus summervillei Brookes, 1978: 241.

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — First detected in 1998 (Brinon et al. 2004).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — During its outbreak in 1998, it was observed in Grande Terre (Boulouparis, Bourail, Dumbéa, Koumac, La Foa, Ouégoa, Païta, Poindimié counties) (Brinon et al. 2004).

OTHER RECORDS. — Australia, Indian subcontinent.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — On Oryza sativae in India, in pastures elsewhere on Bracharia decumbens, B. ruziziensis, Chloris gayana, Digitaria milanjiana, Panicum maximum, P. compressum, Urochloa mosambicensis (Brinon et al. 2004).

NOTE. — After a serious outbreak in 1998, this mealybug “disappeared” in the same way as with its oubreaks in Australia (Brinon et al. 2004).

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

  • BROOKES H. M. 1978. - A new species of Heliococcus Sulc, from Australia and Pakistan and a redescription of Heliococcus glacialis (Newstead) comb. n. (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Journal Australian Entomological Society 17: 241 - 245.
  • BRINON L., MATILE- FERRERO D. & CHAZEAU J. 2004. - Extension et regression d'une Cochenille nuisible aux Graminees, introduite en Nouvelle-Caledonie, Heliococcus sumervillei Brookes (Hemiptera, Pseudococcidae). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France 109 (4): 425 - 428.