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Ceroplastes sinensis Del Guercio 1900
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
Ceroplastes sinensis Del Guercio, 1900
Borg (1932) stated that this scale has been present in Malta since 1912, with records from Schinus molle and the common fig from Ħamrun and Birkirkara. 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 503, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4930613
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Del Guercio
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Coccidae
- Genus
- Ceroplastes
- Species
- sinensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ceroplastes sinensis Guercio, 1900 sec. Mifsud, Mazzeo, Russo & Watson, 2014
References
- Borg, J. (1932) Scale Insects of the Maltese Islands. Government Printing Office, Malta, 20 pp.