Aspidiotus destructor Signoret, 1869

Mille, Christian, Henderson, Rosa C., Cazères, Sylvie & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Checklist of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) of New Caledonia, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 129-176 : 137

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scientific name	Aspidiotus destructor Signoret, 1869
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MATERIAL EXAMINED. — La Foa County ( IAC, SRFP), on fruit of Annona cherimola , 24.VI.2002, J.-P. Kataoui coll. ; La Foa County (Nili), on leaves of Olea europea , 1.VII.2008, C. Mille coll. ; both Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC, CXMNC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Brun & Chazeau (1984).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — West Coast of Grande Terre.

OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Annona spp., Artocarpus spp., Carica papaya , Citrus spp., Mangifera indica , Musa sapientum , Passiflora spp., Persea americana , Prunus persica , Psidium guajava , Vitis vinifera ( Mille 2011) , this species occurs also on olive trees ( Olea europea ), coconut ( Cocos nucifera ) and other palms ( Arecaceae ).

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. — Predated by Rhizobius satelles Blackburn, 1892 ; Chilocorus nigritus ( Fabricius, 1798) ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ) and parasitized by Comperiella bifasciata ( Hymenoptera : Encyrtidae ).

NOTES. — This species is a relatively recent introduction (less than 30 years ago). Cohic (1958a) stated that it was a misidentification of the invalid species “ Aspidiotus hederae (Vallot) ” (Ben Dov & Matile-Ferrero 1999) by Risbec (1942), the latter species being A. nerii described below. As the record was an addendum of the first edition of the Brun & Chazeau’s catalogue in 1980, this means that A. destructor probably arrived during the early 1980s. Not rated as an economic pest in New Caledonia.