Sphaerolecanium prunastri (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1834)

Mifsud, David, Mazzeo, Gaetana, Russo, Agatino & Watson, Gillian W., 2014, The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago, Zootaxa 3866 (4), pp. 499-525 : 518

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:362D4DC7-7505-42C1-B438-9B195B48125C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5494892
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC0D62-C478-FF84-A1F9-A980D95F247F
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Sphaerolecanium prunastri (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1834)
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Sphaerolecanium prunastri (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1834) View in CoL

Borg (1922a: 357) mentioned a species of Lecanium , probably L. prunastri , as common on plums and apricots in local orchards. Since this record was not mentioned in his subsequent work ( Borg, 1932), and S. prunastri has not been collected in the Maltese Islands since, it is here excluded from the Maltese scale insect fauna.