Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock, 1881

Malumphy, Chris, 2014, An annotated checklist of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles, Zootaxa 3846 (1), pp. 69-86 : 71

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.1.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BCC369B9-3FAD-41D3-B85C-43D738D0CBA3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14008778
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BA8789-6A3A-AE6D-FF02-F908FEF0598B
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock
status

Treatment

Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock View in CoL — Florida wax scale

Occurs widely in tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas (including the Lesser Antilles), Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific, isolated records from southern Europe; polyphagous, feeding on plants belonging to 70 families; a major pest of citrus and many ornamental plants. Recorded from Saint Lucia by CABI (2010) and Malumphy (2012, on Schefflera ( Araliaceae )).

Collection data. Gros-Islet Parish: Rodney Bay, Reduit beach, on Nerium oleander (Apocynaceae), 23.viii.2013 .

Copyright notice

No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
SuperFamily	Coccoidea
Family	Coccidae
Genus	Ceroplastes

Specimens

Downloads & Links

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF

Version History

Contribution History

Report Problem

Create Feedback Ticket