Leucaspis riccae Targioni Tozzetti, 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 : 511

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5495008
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scientific name	Leucaspis riccae Targioni Tozzetti, 1881
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First reported from Malta by Leonardi (1920). Borg (1932) recorded this species as found “here and there; on olive trees at Boschetto, San Antonio, Vallone Lia, Notabile, etc”. It was recorded again by Saliba (1963) as being occasionally found on olives, also by Haber & Mifsud (2007) and Mifsud et al. (2012).

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Taxonomy

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

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