Diaspis bromeliae (Kerner, 1778)

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 : 138-139

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a1

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:90DC5B79-725D-46E2-B31E-4DBC65BCD01F

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/457FF032-FF81-840B-FC03-50F6FE56C996

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Felipe

scientific name

Diaspis bromeliae (Kerner, 1778)
status

 

Diaspis bromeliae (Kerner, 1778) View in CoL

Coccus bromeliae Kerner, 1778: 20 View in CoL .

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Watson (2002).

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

OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Ananas comosus , Bromelia spp.

NOTE. — This scale can be a problem when pineapple plants are weak.

Diaspis casuarinae Williams & Watson, 1988 * ( Fig. 5C, D View FIG )

Diaspis casuarinae Williams & Watson, 1988a: 104 View in CoL .

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Williams & Watson (1988a).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Grande Terre, Province Sud (Plum and La Coulée in Mont-Dore County; Nouméa County).

OTHER RECORDS. — Endemic to New Caledonia.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Casuarina spp. ( Williams & Watson 1988a).

NOTE. — This scale is not a problem on cultivated Casuarina trees, which are used as windbreaks.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Diaspididae

Genus

Diaspis

Loc

Diaspis bromeliae (Kerner, 1778)

Mille, Christian, Henderson, Rosa C., Cazères, Sylvie & Jourdan, Hervé 2016
2016
Loc

Diaspis casuarinae

WILLIAMS D. J. & WATSON G. W. 1988: 104
1988
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