Pulvinaria psidii Maskell, 1893

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 : 134

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scientific name	Pulvinaria psidii Maskell, 1893
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Pulvinaria psidii Maskell, 1893 View in CoL

Pulvinaria psidii Maskell, 1893: 223 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — La Foa County ( IAC, SRFP), 3.I.2002, on leaves of Litchi chinensis, C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC); same loc., 4.IV.2002, on Carissa macrocarpa, S. Cazères coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC, CXMNC); Mont-Dore County ( IAC, SRMH), 10.IV.2007, on leaves and twigs of Oxera spp., S. Cazères coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC, CXMNC); same loc. & date, on leaves and twigs of Pycnandra sp., S. Cazères coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC, CXMNC); Poya County (Beaupré), 31. V.2007, on leaves and twigs of Eugenia bullata, C. Mille & S. Cazères coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC); La Foa County ( IAC, SRFP), 17.X.2008, on leaves of L. chinensis, C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC).

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

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Grande Terre (La Foa, Mont-Dore and Poya counties).

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Citrus spp., Coffea spp., Eucalyptus deglupta , Eugenia spp., Litchi chinensis , Mangifera indica , Morinda citrifolia , Plumeria acuminata , Psidium spp., Schinus terebinthifolius , Spathodea campanulata , Syzygium spp. ( Brun & Chazeau 1986; Williams & Watson 1990), recently collected on Carissa macrocarpa , Oxera spp. and Pycnandra sp.

OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan.

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. — Cryptolaemus montrouzieri ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ) and several species of Chrysopidae (Neuroptera) .

NOTES. — According to Cohic (1958a), this species and Ceroplastes rubens were the two soft scale insect species most associated with production of sooty mould growing on their honeydew, especially on Plumeria and guava trees.