Planococcus ficus (Signoret, 1875)

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 : 516

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5495076
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scientific name	Planococcus ficus (Signoret, 1875)
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Borg (1919) recorded this species as Dactylopius vitis Niedl. Borg (1932) recorded it under two different names: Pseudococcus vitis (Mendel) Leon. and P. ficus Fern .. For P. vitis , he stated that it was found on grape vines at Wied Qannotta, Fiddien and other non-specified locations, and for the latter name he reported it as frequent on the fruit and foliage of the common fig. The species was reported again from Malta by Mifsud & Watson (1999) and Mifsud et al. (2012).

Material examined: MALTA, Bir id-Deheb, 22.iv.1994, 2 ♀♀ on Vitis vinifera, DM ; Bingemma, 4.xii.2003, 2 ♀♀ on V. vinifera, DM ; Siggiewi, 28.vii.2009, 5 ♀♀ on Ceratonia siliqua, DM .

References

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.

Mifsud, D. & Watson, G. W. (1999) Introduced sap-feeding insect pests of crop plants in the Maltese islands. The Central Mediterranean Naturalist, 3 (1), 29 - 34.

Mifsud, D., Falzon, A., Malumphy, C., De Lillo, E., Volvas, N. & Porcelli, F. (2012) On some arthropods associated with Ficus species (Moraceae) in the Maltese Islands. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta, 5, 5 - 34.