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Pulvinaria floccifera
- 1. Institute of Earth Systems, Division of Rural Sciences and Food Systems, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
- 2. Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi agroalimentari e ambientali, University of Catania, Italy.
- 3. Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, California, U. S. A.
Description
Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood, 1870)
Recorded by Borg (1932) as being frequent on orange and bay trees at San Anton Gardens and its neighbourhood in Spring and early Summer, but much less frequent later in the season.
Material examined: MALTA, Rabat, 12.iii.1994, 1 ♀ on Pittosporum sp., GW.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1994-03-12
- Family
- Coccidae
- Genus
- Pulvinaria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Westwood
- Species
- floccifera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1994-03-12
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood, 1870) sec. Mifsud, Mazzeo, Russo & Watson, 2014
References
- Borg, J. (1932) Scale Insects of the Maltese Islands. Government Printing Office, Malta, 20 pp.