Ferrisia virgata (Cockerell)

Malumphy, Chris, 2014, An annotated checklist of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles, Zootaxa 3846 (1), pp. 69-86 : 80

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.14008923

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BA8789-6A33-AE64-FF02-FCAAFEF05AF8

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Ferrisia virgata (Cockerell)
status

 

* Ferrisia virgata (Cockerell) View in CoL — striped mealybug ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 , M)

Occurs widely in tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas (including the Lesser Antilles), Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific; polyphagous, feeding on plants belonging to 82 families; a pest of many crops and ornamentals.

Collection data. Gros-Islet Parish: Cas en Bas beach, on Coccoloba uvifera , 22.viii.2013 (massive population); Gros Islet, huge infestation on A. muricata fruit, causing serious damage and making fruit inedible, 19.viii.2013 ; Rodney Bay (widespread and common), on Codiaeum variegatum , 16.viii.2013 and 28.viii.2013, on Ixora spp. , 16.viii.2013, on Mussaenda ( Rubiaceae) , 16.viii.2013, on Ruellia simplex , 17.viii.2013 ; Reduit beach, on C. uvifera , 16–27.viii.2013. It was also found indoors in a shopping mall in Rodney Bay, on a potted Anthurium , 17.viii.2013 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pseudococcidae

Genus

Ferrisia

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