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Asterodiaspis ilicicola
Authors/Creators
- 1. Institute of Earth Systems, Division of Rural Sciences and Food Systems, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
- 2. Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi agroalimentari e ambientali, University of Catania, Italy.
- 3. Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, California, U. S. A.
Description
Asterodiaspis ilicicola (Targioni Tozzetti, 1888)
Recorded by Borg (1932) (as Asterolecanium ilicicola) as a rare species occurring “here and there on Quercus ilex at Wardija, Buskett and Wied Ħazrun”. No Maltese specimens have been seen during the present work.
Notes
Published as part of Mifsud, David, Mazzeo, Gaetana, Russo, Agatino & Watson, Gillian W., 2014, The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago, pp. 499-525 in Zootaxa 3866 (4) on page 502, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4930613
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Targioni Tozzetti
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Asterolecaniidae
- Genus
- Asterodiaspis
- Species
- ilicicola
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Asterodiaspis ilicicola (Tozzetti, 1888) sec. Mifsud, Mazzeo, Russo & Watson, 2014
References
- Borg, J. (1932) Scale Insects of the Maltese Islands. Government Printing Office, Malta, 20 pp.