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
Coccus hesperidum
L.
(
Fig. 1E
)
Material studied.
Colombia
.
Valle del Cauca
:
Alcalá
:
Finca La Porra,
04°40
′
13.1
″
N
,
75°44
′
34.3
″
W
,
1395 m
,
10.xi.2008
, coll. J. Muñoz,
ex
avocado cv. ‘Booth’, 1 (
UVCO
), Same data except,
ex
avocado
cv. ‘
Papelillo’
(‘Lorena’), 1 (
MECP
)
; 3 (
MECP
);
Finca Los Alpes
,
04°42
′
24.8
″
N
,
75°49
′
01.0
″
W
,
1194 m
,
02.xii.2008
, coll.
A. Arias
,
ex
avocado cv. ‘
Papelillo’
(‘
Lorena’
), 1 (
UVCO
), 2 (
MECP
)
;
Caicedonia
:
Finca Corinto
,
04°17
′
04.2
″
N
,
75°51
′
53.9
″
W
,
1650 m
,
20.iv.2009
, coll.
A. Arias
,
T. Kondo
,
J. Muñoz
, 1 (
UVCO
), 2 (
MECP
)
;
Finca Las Margaritas
,
04°17
′
37.1
″
N
,
75°53
′
18.0
″
W
,
1352 m
,
26.v.2009
, coll.
A. Arias
,
T. Kondo
,
J. Muñoz
, 1 (
UVCO
), 2 (
MECP
)
.
Distribution.
Cosmopolitan (
Ben-Dov et al. 2015
).
Remarks.
A tropicopolitan species commonly found on leaves and twigs (
Hamon and Williams 1984
). We found this species on the underside of leaves of ‘Booth’, ‘Hass’ and ‘Lorena’ cultivars.