Hemiberlesia lataniae (Signoret)

Kondo, Takumasa & Muñoz, Jazmín Adriana, 2016, Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) associated with avocado crop, Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae) in Valle del Cauca and neighboring departments of Colombia, Insecta Mundi 2016 (465), pp. 1-24 : 6

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4645809
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D87176BB-292D-4A7C-B106-EEC015A66561
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4645909
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3414244A-6D08-ED07-FF13-CDC712D8FD23
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Hemiberlesia lataniae (Signoret)
status

Treatment

Hemiberlesia lataniae (Signoret) View in CoL

Material studied. Colombia. Valle del Cauca: Alcalá: Finca Los Alpes , 04°42 ′ 24.8 ″ N, 75°49 ′ 01.0 ″ W, 1194 m, 02.xii.2008, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Papelillo’ (‘ Lorena’), 2 ( UVCO) GoogleMaps ; Same data except 04°17 ′ 56.0 ″ N, 75°53 ′ 00.0 ″ W, 1376 m, 28.x.2008, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Papelillo’ (‘ Lorena’), 2 ( UVCO) GoogleMaps ; Caicedonia: Finca El Palmar, 04°17 ′ 56 ″ N, 75°53 ′ 00 ″ W, 1376 m, 31.x.2008, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Papelillo’ (‘ Lorena’), 3 ( UVCO), 1 ( MECP) GoogleMaps ; Finca La Cabaña , 04°17 ′ 43.8 ″ N, 75°50 ′ 39.4 ″ W, 1705 m, 9.ii.2009, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Papelillo’ (‘ Lorena’), 1 ( UVCO), 1 ( MECP) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Cosmopolitan ( Ben-Dov et al. 2015).

Remarks. The latania scale, H. lataniae is a highly polyphagous cosmopolitan species. It has been recorded on 278 genera in 78 plant families ( Borchsenius 1966). In the present study we found this species only on twigs of the ‘Lorena’ cultivar.