Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) associated with avocado crop, Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae) in Valle del Cauca and neighboring departments of Colombia Author Kondo, Takumasa Author Muñoz, Jazmín Adriana text Insecta Mundi 2016 2016-01-22 2016 465 1 24 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.4645809 1942-1354 4645809 D87176BB-292D-4A7C-B106-EEC015A66561 Pseudococcus jackbeardsleyi Gimpel and Miller Material studied. Colombia . Valle del Cauca : Alcalá : Finca El Edén , 04°39 38.4 N , 75°44 33.1 W , 1421 m , 31.x.2008 , coll. A. Arias , 1 ( UVCO ), 1 ( MECP ) ; Finca La Pastora , 04°39 41.6 N , 75°47 46.6 W , 1240 m , 27.iv.2009 , coll. T. Kondo , 1 ( UVCO ) ; Finca Santacruz , 04°39 47.1 N , 75°48 20.7 W , 1223 m , 27.iv.2009 , coll. T. Kondo , 1 ( UVCO ), 1 ( MECP ) ; Caicedonia : Finca El Chaquiro , 04°17 00.0 N , 75°51 24.7 W , 1651 m , 02.iii.2009 , coll. J. Muñoz , 1 ( UVCO ) . Distribution. Afrotropical: Ivory Coast , Reunion, Seychelles . Australasian: Federated States of Micronesia , Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii). Australasian: Indonesia . Australasian: Kiribati , Papua New Guinea , Tuvalu . Nearctic: Canada , Mexico , USA . Neotropical: Aruba , Bahamas , Barbados , Belize , Brazil , Colombia , Costa Rica , Cuba , Dominican Republic , El Salvador , Galapagos Islands, Guatemala , Haiti , Honduras , Jamaica , Martinique, Panama , Puerto Rico , Saint Martin , Trinidad and Tobago ; U.S. Virgin Islands , Venezuela . Oriental: Brunei , India , Cambodia , Malaysia , Maldives , Philippines , Singapore , Sri Lanka , Taiwan , Thailand , Vietnam ( Ben-Dov et al. 2015 ). Remarks. The species was collected on leaves of the ‘Hass’ cultivar.