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Published September 25, 2014 | Version v1
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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.

Notes

Published as part of Mifsud, David, Mazzeo, Gaetana, Russo, Agatino & Watson, Gillian W., 2014, The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago, pp. 499-525 in Zootaxa 3866 (4) on page 505, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4930613

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Additional details

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.