Diaspis echinocacti (Bouché, 1833)

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 : 509

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5494980
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scientific name	Diaspis echinocacti (Bouché, 1833)
status

Treatment

Recorded by Borg (1932) (as Diaspis calyptroides Costa), occurring on Cereus peruvianus , C. grandiflorus , C. macdonaldi , Echinopsis eyriesii and various species of Opuntia .

Material examined: MALTA, Siggiewi, 19.iii.1994, 2 ♀♀ on Zygocactus truncatus, SA ; Għargħur, 11.viii.1994, 11.viii.1994, 3 ♀♀ on Opuntia sp. , DM ; Qawra, 17.ii.2012, 5 ♀♀ on Opuntia sp. , CM .

References

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

Abbreviations

DM	Dominion Museum
CM	Chongqing Museum

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Diaspididae
Genus	Diaspis

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