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Hemiberlesia rapax Coccoidea
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Description
Hemiberlesia rapax (Comstock)
Material studied. Colombia. Valle del Cauca: Caicedonia: Finca El Palmar, 04°17 ′ 56 ″ N, 75°53 ′ 00 ″ W, 1376 m, 28.x.2008, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Booth 8’, 1 (MECP); Same data except 31.x.2008, 1 (UVCO).
Distribution. Cosmopolitan (Ben-Dov et al. 2015).
Remarks. Hemiberlesia rapax was found on the leaves of the ‘Booth 8’ cultivar. This species has been recorded on 117 species in 60 plant families (Borchsenius 1966) and is considered one of the 43 most damaging diaspidid species to agriculture (Beardsley and González 1975).
Notes
Published as part of Kondo, Takumasa & Muñoz, Jazmín Adriana, 2016, Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) associated with avocado crop, Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae) in Valle del Cauca and neighboring departments of Colombia, pp. 1-24 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (465) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645809
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.4645809 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/C82D5C326D0FED00FFD3CC66103FFFD9 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/D87176BB-292D-4A7C-B106-EEC015A66561 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/3414244A6D08ED07FF13C8871471FA00 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MECP , UVCO
- Event date
- 2008-10-28 , 2008-10-31
- Family
- Diaspididae
- Genus
- Hemiberlesia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Coccoidea
- Species
- rapax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2008-10-28 , 2008-10-31
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemiberlesia rapax (Comstock, 1881) sec. Kondo & Muñoz, 2016
References
- Ben-Dov, Y., D. R. Miller, and G. A. P. Gibson. 2015. ScaleNet: a database of the scale insects of the world. (Available at ~ http: // www. sel. barc. usda. gov / scalenet / scalenet. htm /. Last accessed August 2015.)
- Borchsenius, N. 1966. A catalogue of the armoured scale insects (Diaspidoidea) of the world. Nauka, Moscow, Leningrad, Russia. 449 p.
- Beardsley, J. W., and R. H. Gonzalez. 1975. The biology and ecology of armored scales. Annual Review of Entomology 20: 47 - 73.