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Aspidiotus destructor Signoret 1869

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  • 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

Aspidiotus destructor Signoret, 1869

Aspidiotus destructor Signoret, 1869: 120.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — La Foa County (IAC, SRFP), on fruit of Annona cherimola, 24.VI.2002, J.-P. Kataoui coll.; La Foa County (Nili), on leaves of Olea europea, 1.VII.2008, C. Mille coll.; both Rosa C. Henderson det. (NZAC, CXMNC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Brun & Chazeau (1984).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — West Coast of Grande Terre.

OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Annona spp., Artocarpus spp., Carica papaya, Citrus spp., Mangifera indica, Musa sapientum, Passiflora spp., Persea americana, Prunus persica, Psidium guajava, Vitis vinifera (Mille 2011), this species occurs also on olive trees (Olea europea), coconut (Cocos nucifera) and other palms (Arecaceae).

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. — Predated by Rhizobius satelles Blackburn, 1892; Chilocorus nigritus (Fabricius, 1798) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and parasitized by Comperiella bifasciata (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae).

NOTES. — This species is a relatively recent introduction (less than 30 years ago). Cohic (1958a) stated that it was a misidentification of the invalid species “ Aspidiotus hederae (Vallot) ” (Ben Dov & Matile-Ferrero 1999) by Risbec (1942), the latter species being A. nerii described below. As the record was an addendum of the first edition of the Brun & Chazeau’s catalogue in 1980, this means that A. destructor probably arrived during the early 1980s. Not rated as an economic pest in New Caledonia.

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 137, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4578222

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Biodiversity

Collection code
IAC, SRFP
Event date
2002-06-24 , 2008-07-01
Family
Diaspididae
Genus
Aspidiotus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Signoret
Species
destructor
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2002-06-24 , 2008-07-01
Taxonomic concept label
Aspidiotus destructor Signoret, 1869 sec. Mille, Henderson, Cazères & Jourdan, 2016

References

  • BRUN L. - O. & CHAZEAU J. 1984. - Additions to the list of agricultural pests of New Caledonia. CPS, Conference regionale de la Protection des Vegetaux, Noumea, 13 - 17 fevrier 1984, W. P. 3, 8 p.
  • MILLE C. 2011. - Animaux nuisibles et utiles des jardins et vergers de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Editions SENC (Societe entomologique de Nouvelle-Caledonie), 200 p.
  • FABRICIUS J. C. 1798. - Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Proft et Storch, Hafniae 1 - 572.
  • 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.
  • RISBEC J. 1942. - Observations sur les insectes des plantations en Nouvelle-Caledonie. Direction des Affaires economiques, Section d'Agriculture tropicale, Imprimerie nationale, Paris, 128 p.