Nipaecoccus viridis ( Newstead, 1894 )

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 : 150

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4579221

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Nipaecoccus viridis ( Newstead, 1894 )
status

 

Nipaecoccus viridis ( Newstead, 1894) View in CoL

Dactylopius viridis Newstead, 1894: 25 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Bourail County ( Gouaro ), 4.IV.2002, on fruits of Annona squamosa, S. Cazères coll .; Kaala-Gomen County ( Ouaco Village ), 7.X.2002, on twigs of Jatropha gossypifolia, C. Mille coll .; La Foa County ( IAC, SRFP), 14.I.2008, on twigs of Vitis vinifera (greenhouse), C. Mille coll. ; all Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC).

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. — Citrus spp., Nerium oleander ( Brun & Chazeau 1986) , also found on Annona squamosa ( Mille 2011) , Jatropha gossypifolia and Vitis vinifera .

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. — Cryptolaemus montrouzieri ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ) and some unidentified hymenopterous parasitoids.

NOTE. — Can be a serious problem on newly pruned twigs and branches of Citrus trees and because of this, it is rated as an economic species.

IAC

Instituto Agronômico de Campinas

NZAC

New Zealand Arthropod Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pseudococcidae

Genus

Nipaecoccus

Loc

Nipaecoccus viridis ( Newstead, 1894 )

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

Dactylopius viridis

NEWSTEAD R. 1894: 25
1894
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