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Fiorinia fioriniae Coccoidea
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
Fiorinia fioriniae (Targioni Tozzetti, 1867)
Borg (1922b; 1932) gave an account of the introduction of this species to Malta and recorded it on Camellia japonica, Howeia spp. and other palms, fruits and leaves of citrus, and on evergreen woody shrubs at the following localities: Argotti Botanical Gardens (Floriana), San Anton Gardens (Attard), Lija, Mosta and other non-specified locations.
Material examined: MALTA, Mosta, 13.iii.1994, 5 ♀♀ on Camellia sp., GW; Sliema, 2.xi.1995, 5 ♀♀ on Strelitzia reginae, EL; Attard, San Anton Gardens, 19.v.2012, 3 ♀♀ on Howeia sp., AR, DM & GM.
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 509, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4930613
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AR, DM, GM
- Event date
- 1994-03-13 , 1995-11-02 , 2012-05-19
- Verbatim event date
- 1994-03-13 , 1995-11-02 , 2012-05-19
- Scientific name authorship
- Coccoidea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Diaspididae
- Genus
- Fiorinia
- Species
- fioriniae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Fiorinia fioriniae (Tozzetti, 1867) sec. Mifsud, Mazzeo, Russo & Watson, 2014
References
- Borg, J. (1922 b) Due nuove cocciniglie nelle Isole Maltesi. Archivum Melitensis, 6 (1), 39 - 41. [in Italian]
- Borg, J. (1932) Scale Insects of the Maltese Islands. Government Printing Office, Malta, 20 pp.