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Phenacoccus neohordei Marotta 1992

  • 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

Phenacoccus neohordei Marotta, 1992

The species was described from Italy and Sicily on the roots of an assortment of host plants.

Material examined: MALTA, St. Paul’s Bay, 17.v.2012, 3 ♀♀ on roots of Daucus carota, AR, DM & GM; St. Paul’s Bay, 19.v.2012, 6 ♀♀ on roots of Urospermum picroides, AR, DM & GM.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2012-05-17 , 2012-05-19
Family
Pseudococcidae
Genus
Phenacoccus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Marotta
Species
neohordei
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2012-05-17 , 2012-05-19
Taxonomic concept label
Phenacoccus neohordei Marotta, 1992 sec. Mifsud, Mazzeo, Russo & Watson, 2014

References

  • Marotta, S. & Garonna, A. P. (1992) Homoptera Coccoidea nuovi e poco conosciuti delle piante grasse in Italia. In: Atti XVI Congresso Nazionale italiano di Entomologia. Bari, pp. 741 - 746. [in Italian, summary in English]