Published December 11, 2020 | Version v1
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Planococcus ficus

  • 1. Unidad de Entomología, Departamento de Protección Vegetal, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2. Imamoglu Vocational School, Çukurova University, 01330, Adana, Turkey & Çukurova University, Biotechnology Application Research Centre, Balcalı, Adana, Turkey
  • 3. Unidad de Entomología, Departamento de Protección Vegetal, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay & cbasso. bis @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0427 - 3631

Description

Planococcus ficus (Signoret)

Material studied. URUGUAY: Canelón Chico, ex fruits of Vitis vinifera (Vitaceae), 34°37’42.9”S 56°10’24.3”W, 6.ii.2018, coll. Pacheco da Silva, V.C., 3 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 28; same host, Colonia Wilson, 34°42’28.5”S 56°31’05.9”W, 19.xii.2017, coll. Pacheco da Silva, V.C., 2 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 16; Juanicó, 34°36’47.4’’S 56°14’46.2’’W, 28.i.2018, coll. Salvarrey, J., 1 adult ♀, ECFA No. 23; same locality and host, 30.xi.2017, coll. Pacheco da Silva, V.C., 3 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 6; 11.i.2018, coll. Martínez, V., 2 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 24; 10.ii.2019, coll. Arrillaga, L., 3 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 169; 15.ii.2019, coll. Martínez, V., 4 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 170; Las Piedras, 34°39’16.2”S 56°05’06.7”W, 6.ii.2018, coll. Pacheco da Silva, V.C., 2 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 26; Montevideo, 31°40’18.5’’S 56°20’27.6’’W, 2.xii.2017, coll. Pacheco da Silva, V.C., 5 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 1; Rincón del Colorado, 34°41’04.7”S 56°20’35.4”W, 10.ii.2018, coll. Pacheco da Silva, 4 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 34; Sauce, 34°41’04.7”S 56°20’35.4”W, 20.i.2017, coll. Delgado, S., 3 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 20; Salto, 34°35’30”S 56°15’23”W, 21.xii.2017, coll. Salvarrey, J., 3 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 18; Durazno, 33°15’48.02” S 56°01’15.02” W, 6.ii.2018, coll. Arrillaga, L., 3 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 29; Melilla, ex leaves of Ficus carica (Moraceae), 34°48’04.1”S 56°16’32.3”W, 20.ii.2018, coll. Pacheco da Silva, V.C. & Martínez, V., 2 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 33.

Hosts. Polyphagous, reported from 34 species belonging to 25 plant families (García Morales et al. 2016). In Uruguay, Pl. ficus was recorded on Cydonia oblonga (Rosaceae), Ficus carica (Moraceae), Malus domestica (Rosaceae) (Granara de Willink et al. 1997) and Vitis vinifera (Vitaceae) (Trujillo Peluffo 1930).

Distribution. Australasian, Afrotropical, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic regions (García Morales et al. 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Pacheco Da Silva, Vitor C., Kaydan, Mehmet Bora & Basso, Cesar, 2020, Pseudococcidae (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) in Uruguay: morphological identification and molecular characterization, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 501-520 in Zootaxa 4894 (4) on pages 514-515, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4316657

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References

  • Garcia Morales, M., Denno, B., Miller, D. R., Miller, G. L., Ben-Dov, Y. & Hardy, N. B. (2016) ScaleNet: a literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics. Available from: http: // www. scalenet. info (accessed 1 December 2019)
  • Granara de Willink, M. C., Scatoni, I. B., Terra, A. L. & Frioni, M. I. (1997) Cochinillas harinosas (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae) que afectan plantas cultivadas y silvestres en Uruguay. Lista actualizada de plantas hospederas. Agrociencia, 1, 96 - 100.
  • Trujillo Peluffo, A. (1930) Insectos perjudiciales de algunas plantas cultivadas. Facultad de Agronomia, Montevideo, 112 pp.