Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti)

Zarkani, Agustin, Ercan, Cansu, Apriyanto, Dwinardi & Kaydan, Mehmet Bora, 2023, Studies on mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Indonesia, with description of a new species and three new country records, Zootaxa 5228 (2), pp. 157-172 : 169

Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti)

Material examined. INDONESIA, Sumatra I., Bengkulu Province, Bengkulu city, Muara Bangkahulu, on Theobroma cacao L. ( Sterculiaceae ), 20 m a.s.l., 03°45′33.0″ S, 102°16′10.1″ E, 5.iii.2019, coll. A. Zarkani (AZ247), 3 ♀♀.

Comments. The species is polyphagous on ornamentals and fruits, and has been recorded from 84 plant families and 167 genera ( García Morales et al. 2016). It is cosmopolitan, having been reported from 115 countries ( García Morales et al. 2016). In Indonesia, it has been recorded previously from Irian Jaya ( Williams & Watson 1988; Ben-Dov 1994), Java ( Betrem 1937; Ben-Dov 1994), Lombok ( Williams 2004), Sulawesi ( Watson et al. 2014) and Sumatra ( Green 1930).