Vryburgia amaryllidis ( Bouché, 1837 )

Evans, Gregory A. & Abd-Rabou, Shaaban, 2023, The mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) of Egypt, Insecta Mundi 2023 (999), pp. 1-83 : 27

Vryburgia amaryllidis ( Bouché, 1837)

( Figure 51, after Hall, 1923).

Taxonomy. Coccus amaryllidis Bouché 1837: 99 . Type data. THE NETHERLANDS: Poeldijk, on Amaryllis sp.

Trionymus lounsburyi Brain 1912: 179 ; Hosny 1939: 8; synonymy according to Ben-Dov and Cox 1990: 80).

Trionymus crini Hall 1923: 11 . Type data. EGYPT: Cairo, on Crinum sp. and Port Said, on Narcissus sp ; synonymy according to Hall 1920: 20.

Hosts in Egypt. Arundo sp. , Crinum sp. , Cynodon dactylon , Cyperus sp. , Narcissus sp. , Sternbergia sp. ( Hall 1923); ( Hosny 1939).

Distribution in Egypt. Cairo, Port Said ( Hall 1923); Cairo ( Hosny 1939).

Remarks. Hall (1923) stated that this species (as Trionymus crini Hall ) was found low down between the fleshy leaves just above the ground. Hosny (1939) reported this species on the roots of Crinum sp. in Cairo.

Other species reported from Egypt

Pseudococcus comstocki (Kuwana, 1902) was reported by Ezzat and Rashad (1962), who stated that “the existence of this species in Egypt is still of much doubt. Only a single poor specimen of the species is available in the collection at hand. Even this was found on bananas from a shop in Cairo on January 26, 1922, and ever since apparently no similar material has ever arrived to the Department of Plant Protection”.