Hemiberlesia rapax (Comstock, 1881)

Mifsud, David, Mazzeo, Gaetana, Russo, Agatino & Watson, Gillian W., 2014, The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago, Zootaxa 3866 (4), pp. 499-525 : 510

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5494998
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scientific name	Hemiberlesia rapax (Comstock, 1881)
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Borg (1919) recorded this species (as Aspidiotus rapax ), as having “appeared in Malta quite recently on some vegetable marrow, in the vicinity of Ħamrun, and was probably imported from Sicily”. Recorded also by Farrugia (1998) and Haber & Mifsud (2007); the latter reported large numbers of this scale on the stems of olives.

Material examined: MALTA, Rabat, 12.iii.1994, 7 ♀♀ on Euonymus sp. , CC .

References

Borg, P. (1919) The Scale-Insects of the Maltese Islands. Malta Herald Office, Malta, 71 pp.

Farrugia, C. (1998) Parasitic Hymenoptera associated with scale insects on citrus trees in the Maltese Islands. In: Dandria, D. (Ed.), Biology Abstracts M. Sc., Ph. D. 1998 and Contribution to Marine Biology. University of Malta, Msida, Malta, pp. 6 - 8.

Haber, G. & Mifsud, D. (2007) Pests and diseases associated with olive trees in the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean). The Central Mediterranean Naturalist, 4 (3), 143 - 161.