Puto barberi (Cockerell)

Kondo, Takumasa & Muñoz, Jazmín Adriana, 2016, Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) associated with avocado crop, Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae) in Valle del Cauca and neighboring departments of Colombia, Insecta Mundi 2016 (465), pp. 1-24 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4645809
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D87176BB-292D-4A7C-B106-EEC015A66561
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4645959
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3414244A-6D01-ED0E-FF13-CFE41441FBA3
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Puto barberi (Cockerell)
status

Treatment

Puto barberi (Cockerell) View in CoL

Material studied. Colombia. Valle del Cauca: Palmira: 03°32 ′ 18.9 ″ N, 76°18 ′ 04.2 ″ W, 1022 m, 17.iv.2009, coll. T. Kondo, ex avocado cv. ‘Papelillo’ (‘Lorena’), 3 ( UVCO), 4 ( MECP).

Distribution. Neotropical: Antigua, Bahamas, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S. Virgin Islands, Venezuela ( Ben-Dov et al. 2015).

Remarks. Puto barberi was found in the city of Palmira, on leaves and twigs of an avocado tree planted along a sidewalk. This is the first report of P. barberi on avocado in Colombia.