Diaspidiotus pyri (Lichtenstein, 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 : 508

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3
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scientific name	Diaspidiotus pyri (Lichtenstein, 1881)
status

Treatment

Borg (1932) recorded this species (as Aspidiotus pyri ) as infrequent on apple and pear trees at Balzan, Lija and Attard. No Maltese specimens have been seen during the present work.

References

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

Copyright notice

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Taxonomy

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

Specimens