Planococcus citri ( Risso, 1813 )

Evans, Gregory A. & Abd-Rabou, Shaaban, 2023, The mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) of Egypt, Insecta Mundi 2023 (999), pp. 1-83 : 23

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10832115

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10166232

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scientific name

Planococcus citri ( Risso, 1813 )
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Planococcus citri ( Risso, 1813) View in CoL

( Figure 35 View Figure 35 , after Williams 2004).

Taxonomy. Dorthesia citri Risso 1813: 416 . Type data. FRANCE: Menton, on Citrus spp. Pseudococcus citri phenacocciformis Brain 1915: 116 . Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Rosebank, on Bouvardia sp. , synonymy according to Ezzat and McConnell 1956: 65; Hall 1926b: 6.

Planococcus citri (Risso) View in CoL ; Ferris 1950: 165, change of combination; Ezzat 1962d: 164.

Hosts in Egypt. Tecoma capensis , Trifolium alexcasndrinum ( Hall 1926b) ; on the roots of Arachis hypogaea , Citrullus vulgaris , Gynandropsis pentaphylla , Orobanche , Pluchea dioscoridis , Solanum tuberosum , Solanum lycopersicum , Solanum nigrum and Zygophyllum ( Hosny 1939) .

Distribution in Egypt. Mataria ( Hall 1926b); Alexandra, Barrage, Bilbeis, Dokki, El-Max , Ein-el-Sheikh, Khargah and Mansourah ( Hosny 1939).

Remarks. This is a very polyphagous, cosmopolitan species known to occur in Egypt since 1926.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pseudococcidae

Genus

Planococcus

Loc

Planococcus citri ( Risso, 1813 )

Evans, Gregory A. & Abd-Rabou, Shaaban 2023
2023
Loc

Planococcus citri (Risso)

Ezzat YM 1962: 164
Ferris GF 1950: 165
1950
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