Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti, 1886)

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 : 144

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a1

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scientific name

Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti, 1886)
status

 

Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti, 1886) View in CoL

Diaspis pentagona Targioni-Tozzetti, 1886: 184 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — La Foa County ( IAC, SRFP), 14.X.2002, on stems of the “Kanak cabbage” ( Abelmoschus spp.), J.-P. Kataoui coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC, CXMNC); same loc., 14.01.2003, on M. indica, C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC); La Foa County (Nili), 4.IV.2005, on leaves of Cycas sp., C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC, CXMNC); same loc., 13.IV.2010, on fruits of Actinidia chinensis imported from Italy, C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC); Nouméa County, 13. VI.2012, on leaves and twigs of Ligustrum vulgare, M. Cazères coll., Christopher Hodgson det. ( CXMNC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Cohic (1956, 1958a).

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

OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Althea spp., Angelonia salicariaefolia , Argyreia nervova , Broussonetia papyrifera , Cassia alata , Delphinium spp., Euphorbiaceae , Heliotropium foertherianum , Morus alba , Pelargonium spp., Plumeria alba , Ricinus communis , Stachytarpheta indica ( Cohic 1956, 1958a), Mangifera indica , Carica papaya , Passiflora spp., Prunus persica ( Mille 2011) , recently found on the edible Abelmoschus spp., Actinidia chinensis , Cycas spp. and on Ligustrum vulgare . It is also recorded on Citrus spp. ( Miller & Davidson 2005).

NOTES. — Cohic (1956, 1958a) noted that infestations are often associated with the entomopathogenic fungi Fusarium coccidicola (Fungi, Hypocreales , Nectriaceae ) and Septobasidium bogoriense (Fungi, Basidiomycota, Septobasidiaceae ). Not rated as an economic species in New Caledonia.

IAC

Instituto Agronômico de Campinas

NZAC

New Zealand Arthropod Collection

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Diaspididae

Genus

Pseudaulacaspis

Loc

Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti, 1886)

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

Diaspis pentagona

Targioni-Tozzetti 1886: 184
1886
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