Pollinia pollini (Costa, 1857)

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 : 502-503

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3
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scientific name	Pollinia pollini
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Recorded by Haber & Mifsud (2007) as relatively common on Olea europea . In unpublished correspondence by D.J. Williams of the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London to J.M. Wilkinson of the Government of

Malta, dated 4 th February 1970, the presence of this scale insect was confirmed from material collected in Malta at that time, indicating its presence in Malta earlier than the records in Haber & Mifsud (2007).

References

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.