Filippia follicularis (Targioni Tozzetti, 1867)

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 : 504

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.5494976
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scientific name	Filippia follicularis (Targioni Tozzetti, 1867)
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This species was correctly recorded by Borg (1919). Borg’s (1932) record of Philippia oleae (Costa) was a misidentification and should refer to Filippia follicularis ( Ben-Dov et al., 2014) . Borg (1932) stated that the species was found “here and there on the olive tree in both islands; more frequent at St. Julian’s, Sliema and San Anton Gardens”. No Maltese specimens have been seen during the present work.

References

Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D. R. & Gibson, G. A. P. (2014) ScaleNet. Available from: http: // www. sel. barc. usda. gov / scalenet / scalenet. htm (accessed 22 February 2014)

Borg, P. (1919) The Scale-Insects of the Maltese Islands. Malta Herald Office, Malta, 71 pp.

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