Acutaspis perseae (Comstock)

Kondo, Takumasa & Muñoz, Jazmín Adriana, 2016, Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) associated with avocado crop, Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae) in Valle del Cauca and neighboring departments of Colombia, Insecta Mundi 2016 (465), pp. 1-24 : 3

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4645809
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D87176BB-292D-4A7C-B106-EEC015A66561
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4645897
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3414244A-6D0B-ED04-FF13-C9071432F903
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Acutaspis perseae (Comstock)
status

Treatment

Acutaspis perseae (Comstock) View in CoL

Material studied. Colombia. Valle del Cauca: Alcalá: Finca Los Alpes , 04°42 ′ 24.8 ″ N, 75°49 ′ 01.0 ″ W, 1194 m, 02.xii.2008, coll. J. Muñoz, ex Persea americana cv. not determined, 2 ( UVCO), 1 ( MECP) GoogleMaps ; Finca Villa del Sol , 04°42 ′ 06.1 ″ N, 75°450 ′ 00.5 ″ W, 1215 m, 02.xii.2008, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Booth 8’, 1 ( MECP) ; El Cerrito: Finca Alvecia , 03°38 ′ 51.1 ″ N, 76°06 ′ 14.7 ″ W, 1925 m, 19.xii.2008, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Booth 8’, 1 ( MECP) GoogleMaps ; Same data except ex avocado cv. ‘ Booth, 1’ ( UVCO) ; Palmira: Rozo, Finca Brasil , 03°36 ′ 36.0 ″ N, 76°25 ′ 08.5 ″ W, 967 m, 19.xii.2008, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Booth 8’, 1 ( MECP) GoogleMaps ; Same data, except, ex avocado cv. ‘ Booth’, 1 ( UVCO), 1 ( MECP) .

Distribution. Nearctic: Mexico, USA. Neotropical: Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago ( Trinidad), Venezuela. Palaearctic: Ukraine, United Kingdom ( England) ( Ben-Dov et al. 2015).

Remarks. This species was found on the underside of leaves of ‘Booth 8’, ‘Lorena’ and an undetermined native cultivar. This is the first record of this species from Colombia.