Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood, 1870)

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 : 505

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scientific name	Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood, 1870)
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Recorded by Borg (1932) as being frequent on orange and bay trees at San Anton Gardens and its neighbourhood in Spring and early Summer, but much less frequent later in the season.

Material examined: MALTA, Rabat, 12.iii.1994, 1 ♀ on Pittosporum sp. , GW .

References

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

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
SuperFamily	Coccoidea
Family	Coccidae
Genus	Pulvinaria

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