Ceroplastes rubens Maskell, 1893

Mille, Christian, Henderson, Rosa C., Cazères, Sylvie & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Checklist of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) of New Caledonia, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 129-176 : 132

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a1

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scientific name

Ceroplastes rubens Maskell, 1893
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Ceroplastes rubens Maskell, 1893: 214 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Loyalty Islands (Maré, Médu), 10.XI.2000, on leaves and twigs of Persea americana, C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC, CXMNC); La Foa County ( IAC, SRFP), 2000, on Mangifera indica, C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC); same loc., 16.IV.2002, on leaves of M. indica, S. Cazères coll., det. ( CXMNC).

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Cohic (1950, 1956, 1958a).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Almost everywhere.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Citrus spp., Melaleuca quinquenervia , Montrouziera spp., Montrouziera cauliflora , Syzygium cumini ( Williams & Watson 1990) , Annona spp., Cocos nucifera , Mangifera indica , Musa spp., Pyrus communis ( Risbec 1942) , Persea americana ( Cohic 1950) , Agathis lanceolata , Calophyllum inophyllum , Cycas spp., Ficus spp., Hibiscus rosa-sinensis , Lagerstroemia indica , Platycerium spp., Psidium spp. ( Cohic 1958a), Gerbera spp., Plumeria acuminata ( Brun & Chazeau 1980) .

OTHER RECORDS. — Australasia, South-East Asia, equatorial northeastern and southern Africa, Far East, Pacific Ocean, Micronesia, Indian Ocean, Central Pacific.

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. — Moranila californica (Embleton, 1902) ( Hymenoptera : Pteromalidae ) ( Cohic 1958a); Encyrtus infelix (Embleton, 1902) ( Hymenoptera : Encyrtidae ); Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832) ( Hymenoptera : Pteromalidae ) ( Mille 2011).

NOTES. — One of the commonest scale species in New Caledonia, it is of environmental and economic significance as it can be found in many eco- and agrosystems. It can be seen in large areas on stands of Melaleuca quinquenervia , associated with invasive ants that probably counteract the action of parasitoids, and also with large quantities of sooty mould ( Kohler & Pellegrin 1992).

NZAC

New Zealand Arthropod Collection

IAC

Instituto Agronômico de Campinas

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Coccidae

Genus

Ceroplastes

Loc

Ceroplastes rubens Maskell, 1893

Mille, Christian, Henderson, Rosa C., Cazères, Sylvie & Jourdan, Hervé 2016
2016
Loc

Ceroplastes rubens

MASKELL W. M. 1893: 214
1893
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