Pulvinariella mesembryanthemi (Vallot, 1829)

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:362D4DC7-7505-42C1-B438-9B195B48125C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5494837
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scientific name	Pulvinariella mesembryanthemi (Vallot, 1829)
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Borg (1932) recorded this species as “common on Mesembryanthemum acinaciforme and other species, at Buskett, Floriana Gardens etc. Found also at Xlendi etc. in Gozo ”. 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.

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Taxonomy

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

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