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Phenacoccus peruvianus Granara de Willink 2007

  • 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

Phenacoccus peruvianus Granara de Willink

Material studied. URUGUAY: Montevideo, ex leaves of Hypoestes phyllostachya (Acanthaceae), 34°54’00.8”S 56°10’18.9”W, 28.xii.2018, coll. Pacheco da Silva, V.C., 7 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 166; same city and collector, ex leaves of Bougainvillea sp. (Nyctaginaceae), 34°53’30.4”S 56°07’27.5”W, 10.i.2019, 7 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 167; ex leaves of Aucuba japonica (Aucubaceae), 34°53’30.4”S 56°07’27.5”W, 25.x.2019, 2 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 259; same host, Melilla, 34°44’30.5”S 56°16’49.5”W, 13.v.2019, coll. Martínez, V., 6 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 234.

Hosts. Polyphagous, reported on Alternanthera sp. (Amaranthaceae), Baccharis sp., (Asteraceae), Eupatorium sp. (Asteraceae) (Granara de Willink & Szumik 2007), Araujia sericifera (Asclepiadaceae), Aucuba japonica (Aucubaceae), Bougainvillea glabra (Nyctaginaceae), Myoporum laetum (Myoporaceae), Solanum vespertilio (Solanaceae) (Beltrá et al. 2010), Buddleja sp. (Buddlejaceae), Coleus scutellarioides (Lamiaceae) (Pencheva & Yovkova 2016), Cestrum nocturnum (Solanaceae), Dicliptera squarrosa (= Dicliptera suberecta) (Acanthaceae) (Stathas et al. 2015), and Ilex aquifolium (Aquifoliaceae) (Szita et al. 2017).

Distribution. Nearctic, Neotropical and Palaearctic regions (García Morales et al. 2016). This is the first record of Ph. peruvianus in Uruguay.

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 page 512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4316657

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ECFA , V, ECFA
Event date
2018-12-28 , 2019-01-10 , 2019-05-13 , 2019-10-25
Family
Pseudococcidae
Genus
Phenacoccus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Granara de Willink
Species
peruvianus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2018-12-28/2019-10-25
Taxonomic concept label
Phenacoccus peruvianus de, 2007 sec. Da, Kaydan & Basso, 2020

References

  • Granara de Willink, M. C. & Szumik, C. (2007) Phenacoccinae de Centro y Sudamerica (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae): Sistematica y filogenia. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 66, 29 - 129.
  • Beltra, A., Soto, A., Germain, J. - F., Matile-Ferrero, D., Mazzeo, G., Pellizzari, G., Russo, A., Franco, J. C. & Williams, D. J. (2010) The Bougainvillea mealybug Phenacoccus peruvianus, a rapid invader from South America to Europe. Entomologia Hellenica, 19, 137 - 143. https: // doi. org / 10.12681 / eh. 11581
  • Pencheva, A. & Yovkova, M. (2016) New data on alien insect pests on ornamental plants in Bulgaria. Forestry Ideas, 1, 17 - 33.
  • Stathas, G. J., Kartsonas, E. D. & Darras, A. I. (2015) Record of Phenacoccus peruvianus Granara de Willink and Phenacoccus madeirensis (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on new host ornamental plants in Greece. Hellenic Plant Protection Journal, 8, 12 - 14. https: // doi. org / 10.1515 / hppj- 2015 - 0002
  • Szita, E., Fetyko, K., Konczne Benedicty, Z., Kozar, F., Partsinevelos, G. K., Milonas, P. G. & Kaydan, M. B. (2017) Data on the scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) fauna of Greece, with description of two new species. Zootaxa, 4329 (5), 463 - 476. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4329.5.4
  • 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)