Pinnaspis strachani (Cooley)

Malumphy, Chris, 2014, An annotated checklist of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles, Zootaxa 3846 (1), pp. 69-86 : 78

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BCC369B9-3FAD-41D3-B85C-43D738D0CBA3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14008884

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BA8789-6A31-AE66-FF02-FF5AFE455FC8

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pinnaspis strachani (Cooley)
status

 

Pinnaspis strachani (Cooley) View in CoL — lesser snow scale ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 , J)

Cosmopolitan, restricted to indoor plantings in cooler temperate regions; polyphagous, feeding on plants belonging to 84 families; a serious pest of many crops and ornamentals. Recorded from Saint Lucia by Crop Protection Compendium (2014) and Malumphy (2012, on Annona muricata ). Often found in large numbers on A. muricata fruit, the male tests forming conspicuous white patches on the fruit.

Collection data. Intercepted in the UK (London) on A. muricata , 12.xi.2012, leg. R. Waghorn, 2.vii.2013, leg. J. Pollock, 29.vii.2013, leg. D. Dennis, 4.viii.2013, 25.v.2014, leg. J. Pollock (abundant, many scales were parasitized by an unidentified Aphelinidae , and found in association with a predatory stigmaeid mite ( Stigmaeidae )), 12.viii.2013, leg. D. Dennis , and 23.ix.2013, leg. R. Waghorn (in association with a predatory Eupalopsellidae mite) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Diaspididae

Genus

Pinnaspis

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