Nipaecoccus viridis ( Newstead, 1894 )
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Nipaecoccus viridis ( Newstead, 1894 ) |
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Nipaecoccus viridis ( Newstead, 1894) View in CoL
( Figure 25 View Figure 25 , after Williams 2004)
Taxonomy. Dactylopius viridis Newstead 1894: 5 . Type data. INDIA: Madras, Nungumbaukum, on Hygrophila spinosa .
Dactylopius perniciosus Newstead and Willcocks 1910: 138 . Type data: EGYPT: Cairo, on Albizia lebbek ; synonymy according to Zimmerman 1948: 245.
Pseudococcus perniciosus ( Newstead, 1920) View in CoL ; Hall 1923: 35-36.
Hosts in Egypt. Albizia lebbek , Ficus carica, Jacaranda mimosifolia , Nerium oleander , Psidium guajava , Vitis vinifera ( Hall 1923) .
Distribution in Egypt. No locality data ( Hall 1923).
Remarks. This is a very polyphagous species known from many Old World countries and was recently found in Florida ( USA) ( Stocks and Hodges 2010). Deeter and Ahmed (2023) provided a list of the hosts and localities on which this species has been found.
Deeter LA, Ahmed MZ. 2023. The records of Nipaecoccus viridis (Newstead) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods. Insecta Mundi 0995: 1 - 8.
Hall WJ. 1923. Further observations on the Coccidae of Egypt. Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Service 36: 1 - 61.
Newstead R. 1894. Scale insects in Madras. Indian Museum Notes 3: 21 - 32.
Newstead R, Willcocks FC. 1910. Characters and general morphology of the lebbek scale. Bulletin of Entomological Research 1: 138 - 140.
Newstead R. 1920. Observations on scale-insects (Coccidae) - VI. Bulletin of Entomological Research 10: 175 - 207.
Stocks IC, Hodges G. 2010. Nipaecoccus viridis (Newstead), a new exotic mealybug in South Florida (Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Division of Plant Industry. Pest alert 01716: 1 - 2.
Williams DJ. 2004. Mealybugs of southern Asia. Southdene; London. 896 p.
Zimmerman EC. 1948. Homoptera: Sternorrhyncha. Insects of Hawaii 5: 1 - 464.
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Nipaecoccus viridis ( Newstead, 1894 )
| Evans, Gregory A. & Abd-Rabou, Shaaban 2023 |
Pseudococcus perniciosus ( Newstead, 1920 )
| Hall WJ 1923: 35 |
Dactylopius perniciosus
| Zimmerman EC 1948: 245 |
| Newstead R & Willcocks FC 1910: 138 |