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Phenacoccus parvus Morrison 1924

  • 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

Phenacoccus parvus Morrison, 1924

Phenacoccus parvus Morrison, 1924: 147.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Mont-Dore County (Mr Champalou Farm), 21.III.2007, on Solanum lycopersicum, P. Caplong coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. (NZAC, CXMNC); same loc., 8. V.2007, on S. lycopersicum and Ageratum conyzoÏdes, same coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. (NZAC, CXMNC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — This species has been present in New Caledonia since 1974 (Williams & Watson 1988b).

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

OTHER RECORDS. — West Indies, Central, North and South America, Pacific Ocean, Australasia, southern Europe, western and equatorial Africa.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Williams & Watson (1988b) listed the species on Solanum tuberosum with a question mark.

NOTE. — It is not rated as an economic species, but it should be monitored as it is found on economic crops.

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

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References

  • 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.