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Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock 1881

Creators

  • 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

Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock, 1881

A Neotropical species recorded by Saliba (1963) as fairly common on citrus, and by Farrugia (1998).

Material examined: MALTA, Lija, 18.iii.1994, 2 ♀♀ on Citrus reticulata, DM; Bir id-Deheb, 27.iii.94, 4 ♀♀ on Cydonia oblonga, DM.

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 503, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4930613

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC0D62C46FFF93A1F9A9AFDDF52407

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4930613 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC5751AC46BFF97A16EAB3DDC4B273D (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/362D4DC7-7505-42C1-B438-9B195B48125C (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03FC0D62C46FFF93A1F9A9AFDDF52407 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/185471525 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/4339/taxon/03FC0D62C46FFF93A1F9A9AFDDF52407.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Event date
1994-03-18
Family
Coccidae
Genus
Ceroplastes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Comstock
Species
floridensis
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1994-03-18
Taxonomic concept label
Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock, 1881 sec. Mifsud, Mazzeo, Russo & Watson, 2014

References

  • Saliba, L. J. (1963) Insect pests of crop plants in the Maltese Islands. Department of Information, Malta, 35 pp.
  • Farrugia, C. (1998) Parasitic Hymenoptera associated with scale insects on citrus trees in the Maltese Islands. In: Dandria, D. (Ed.), Biology Abstracts M. Sc., Ph. D. 1998 and Contribution to Marine Biology. University of Malta, Msida, Malta, pp. 6 - 8.