Published September 25, 2014 | Version v1
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Amonostherium rorismarinis

  • 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

Amonostherium rorismarinis (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1834)

Recorded by Borg (1932) (as Eriococcus rorismarini (Boyer de Fonscolombe)) as being frequent but nowhere common on Rosmarinus officinalis and Salvia officinalis, from the following localities on Malta: Buskett, Baħrija and Ġnejna. 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 514, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4930613

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References

  • Borg, J. (1932) Scale Insects of the Maltese Islands. Government Printing Office, Malta, 20 pp.