Lepidosaphes gloverii (Packard, 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 : 141

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4579154
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scientific name	Lepidosaphes gloverii (Packard, 1869)
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Lepidosaphes gloverii (Packard, 1869) View in CoL

Aspidiotus gloverii Packard, 1869: 527 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — La Foa County ( IAC, SRFP), 4.VII.2000, on leaves of Citrus sp., S. Cazères coll., det. ( CXMNC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Brun & Chazeau (1980).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — All over the New Caledonian Archipelago.

OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Citrus spp. ( Brun & Chazeau 1980).

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. — Aphytis cochereaui , A. lepidosaphes , Encarsia lounsburyi ( Hymenoptera : Aphelinidae ) and the entomopathogenic fungus Synnematium jonesii (Fungi, Hypocreales , Ophiocordycipitaceae ).

NOTE. — This species is a minor pest in the field but is, with Lepidosaphes beckii , economically significant for exports of Tahitian and Mexican limes from New Caledonia to New Zealand.