Conchaspis angraeci Cockerell, 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 : 135

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a1
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Conchaspis angraeci Cockerell, 1893
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Conchaspis angraeci Cockerell, 1893 View in CoL

Conchaspis angraeci Cockerell, 1893: 9 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tiga Island, 22.III.2012, on leaves of Vanilla sp., J.-P. Lolo coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC, CXMNC); Loyalty Islands (Maré), 3.IV.2013, on leaves of Vanilla sp., J. Drouin coll., S. Cazères det. ( CXMNC); Nouméa County (Quartier Ouémo- Magenta), 30.VII.2014, on leaves of Vanilla sp., N. Hugot coll., S. Cazères det. ( CXMNC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Mille et al. 2012.

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Loyalty Islands and Grande Terre.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Highly polyphagous; this species is hosted by 25 botanical families (Ben-Dov 2012c).

OTHER RECORDS. — Angola, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Bermuda, Barbados, Cuba, Ecuador, Fiji Islands, French Polynesia, La Réunion, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto-Rico, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, USA, and Venezuela.

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. — Unknown.

NOTE. — This recently established species appears to be a major threat to New Caledonian Vanilla .