Pseudococcus longispinus Targioni-Tozzetti, 1867

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 : 151

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scientific name	Pseudococcus longispinus Targioni-Tozzetti, 1867
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MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Bourail County (Gouaro), 11.XI.2002, on leaves of Schefflera sp., S. Cazères coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC, CXMNC); Koumac County (Tiébaghi Mining Plant), 9.III.2013, on leaves and twigs of an unidentified Myrtaceae, C. Mille coll., Christopher Hodgson det. ( CXMNC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Cohic (1958a).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Grande Terre (Bourail and Koumac counties).

OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Alocasia macrorrhiza , Caladium bicolor , Coffea spp., Colocasia esculenta , Ficus spp., Santalum austrocaledonicum , Solanum tuberosum , Vitis vinifera ( Brun & Chazeau 1986) , Bruguiera eriopetala ( Williams & Watson 1988b) , also on Schefflera spp. It is also recorded on Citrus spp. ( García et al. 2015).

NOTE. — It was recently observed and collected by one of us (CM), in large numbers in the “maquis minier” on Tiébaghi (far north of Grande Terre).

References

BRUN L. - O. & CHAZEAU J. 1986. - Catalogue des ravageurs d'interet agricole de Nouvelle-Caledonie. ORSTOM, Centre de Noumea, 2 e ed., 130 p.

COHIC F. 1958 a. - Contribution a l'etude des cochenilles d'interet economique de Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependances. South Pacific Commission, Technical Paper 116: 35 p.

GARCIA M., DENNO B., MILLER D. R, MILLER G. L., BEN- DOV Y. & HARDY N. B. 2015. - ScaleNet: A Literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics. http: // scalenet. info (accessed on 29 th December 2015).

WILLIAMS D. J. & WATSON G. W. 1988 b. - The Scales Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region, Part 2: The Mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK, 260 p.