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Dysmicoccus boninsis

  • 1. Institut agronomique néo-calédonien, IAC, Axe 1, Station de Recherches fruitières de Pocquereux, Laboratoire d'Entomologie appliquée, BP 32, 98880 La Foa (New Caledonia) mille @ iac. nc
  • 2. Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170 Auckland Mail Centre, Auckland 1142 (New Zealand)
  • 3. Institut agronomique néo-calédonien, IAC, Axe 1, Station de Recherches fruitières de Pocquereux, Laboratoire d'Entomologie appliquée, BP 32, 98880 La Foa (New Caledonia) scazeres @ iac. nc
  • 4. Institut méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix-Marseille Université, UMR CNRS IRD Université d'Avignon, UMR 237 IRD, Centre IRD Nouméa, BP A 5, 98848 Nouméa cedex (New Caledonia) herve. jourdan @ ird. fr Published on 24 June 2016

Description

Dysmicoccus boninsis (Kuwana, 1909)

Dactylopius boninsis Kuwana, 1909: 161.

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

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — All over the New Caledonian Archipelago.

OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Saccharum officinarum (Cohic 1958a).

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. — Cohic (1958a) noted that the spread of this mealybug was effectively limited by the ladybird Cryptolaemus montrouzieri (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).

NOTES. — Cohic (1958a) observed it all over the country on every clump of sugarcane, at the base of leaf sheaths. It is not rated as an economic species.

Notes

Published as part of Mille, Christian, Henderson, Rosa C., Cazères, Sylvie & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Checklist of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) of New Caledonia, pp. 129-176 in Zoosystema 38 (2) on page 148, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4578222

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References

  • 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.