Parlatoria pergandii Comstock, 1881

Mifsud, David, Mazzeo, Gaetana, Russo, Agatino & Watson, Gillian W., 2014, The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago, Zootaxa 3866 (4), pp. 499-525 : 512

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:362D4DC7-7505-42C1-B438-9B195B48125C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5495022

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC0D62-C466-FF9A-A1F9-AAB7D89425C0

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Parlatoria pergandii Comstock, 1881
status

 

Parlatoria pergandii Comstock, 1881 View in CoL

Borg (1898) recorded this species as a recent introduction from Italy, and as being present only in some orange groves at “Casal Lia ”. Borg (1919) wrote that it “is rarely met with on wild plants and its ravages in Malta are limited to a few localities in the central parts of the island”. Borg (1922a: 79) said that this “scale has now spread to most [ Citrus ] groves of the Island, but so far not given cause of complaint”. It was recorded again by Saliba (1963) as common on citrus, and by Farrugia (1998).

Material examined: MALTA, Żejtun, 11.iii.1994, 6 ♀♀ on Citrus sinensis, DM ; Marsa, Għammieri, 5.iii.1999, 2 ♀♀ on C. aurantium, CF ; St. Paul’s Bay, 22.i.1999, 6 ♀♀ on C. limon and C. aurantium, CF ; Bugibba, 14.ii.2012, 3 ♀♀ on C. sinensis, CM ; Mdina, 15.ii.2012, 8 ♀♀ on C. limon and C. sinensis, CM ; Qawra, 16.ii.2012, 4 ♀♀ on? Viburnum sp. , CM. GOZO, Vittoriosa, 26.ii.1995, 3 ♀♀ on Citrus sp. , DM.

CM

Chongqing Museum

DM

Dominion Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Diaspididae

Genus

Parlatoria

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