Gueriniella (Fabricius)

Watson, Gillian W., 2022, Towards identification of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) of continental Africa: 2. Checklists and keys to six archaeococcoid families, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 301-356 : 333

Genus Gueriniella (Fabricius)

Gueriniella is a Palaearctic genus containing two species, one of which occurs in North Africa ( García Morales et al. 2016). Gueriniella serratulae ( Fig. 11 ) occurs in Algeria on host plants belonging to 33 genera in 13 families ( García Morales et al. 2016). In the past in southern France, the scale was sufficiently damaging to justify biological control using Novius cardinalis (Mulsant) ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ) ( Balachowsky 1932).

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FIGURE 11. Gueriniella serratulae (Fabricius), adult female, developed from Morrison (1928: 198, Fig. 105).