Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli ( Cooley, 1897 )

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4579170
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli ( Cooley, 1897 )
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Treatment

Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli ( Cooley, 1897) View in CoL

Chionaspis cockerelli Cooley, 1897: 278 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Nouméa County (Magenta), 15. V.2013, on leaves of Mangifera indica, N. Hugot coll., det. Christopher Hodgson ( CXMNC).

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

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

OTHER RECORDS. — Southern Europe, Australasia, South-East Asia, Indian Ocean, Eastern, northern and southern Africa, Pacific Ocean, Far East, Micronesia, central Pacific, North America.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Carica papaya ( Brun & Chazeau 1980) , recently found on Mangifera indi ca (Nicolas Hugot pers. comm.).

NOTES. — Not recorded by Cohic during the fifties, so it was probably introduced after 1958. A common species on Papaya trees and rated as an economic pest.