Published January 22, 2016 | Version v1
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Saissetia coffeae Coccoidea

Description

Saissetia coffeae (Walker)

Material studied. Colombia. Valle del Cauca: Alcalá: Finca La Porra, 04°40 13.1 N, 75°44 34.3 W, 1395 m, 10.xi.2008, coll. A. Arias, J. Muñoz, 1 (UVCO), 2 (MECP); Finca Los Alpes, 04°17 56 N, 75°53 00 W, 1376 m, 28.x.2008, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Booth 8’, 1 (UVCO); Hacienda La Polonia, 04°40 09.8 N, 75°45 14.1 W, 1369 m, 31.x.2008, coll. T. Kondo, ex avocado cv. ‘ Papelillo’ (‘ Lorena’), 1 (MECP); Caicedonia: Finca La Cabaña, 04°17 43.8 N, 75°50 39.4 W, 1705 m, 09.ii.2009, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Booth’, 2 (UVCO), 1 (MECP); Finca Corinto, 04°17 04.2 N, 75°51 53.9 W, 1650 m, 20.iv.2009, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Papelillo’ (‘ Lorena’), 2 (UVCO), 2 (MECP); Finca Las Margaritas, 04°17 37.1 N, 75°53 18.0 W, 1352 m, 26.v.2009, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Papelillo’ (‘ Lorena’), (2 (UVCO), 3 (MECP).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan (Ben-Dov et al. 2015).

Remarks. The hemispherical scale, S. coffeae was found on both leaf surfaces of avocados of ‘Booth’ and ‘Lorena’ cultivars.

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 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645809

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MECP , UVCO , UVCO, MECP
Event date
2008-10-28 , 2008-10-31 , 2008-11-10 , 2009-02-09 , 2009-04-20 , 2009-05-26
Family
Coccidae
Genus
Saissetia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Coccoidea
Species
coffeae
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2008-10-28 , 2008-10-31 , 2008-11-10 , 2009-02-09 , 2009-04-20 , 2009-05-26
Taxonomic concept label
Saissetia coffeae (Walker, 1852) 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.)