Checklist of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) of New Caledonia Author Mille, Christian Institut agronomique néo-calédonien, IAC, Axe 1, Station de Recherches fruitières de Pocquereux, Laboratoire d’Entomologie appliquée, BP 32, 98880 La Foa (New Caledonia) mille @ iac. nc mille@iac.nc Author Henderson, Rosa C. Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170 Auckland Mail Centre, Auckland 1142 (New Zealand) Author Cazères, Sylvie Institut agronomique néo-calédonien, IAC, Axe 1, Station de Recherches fruitières de Pocquereux, Laboratoire d’Entomologie appliquée, BP 32, 98880 La Foa (New Caledonia) scazeres @ iac. nc scazeres@iac.nc Author Jourdan, Hervé Institut méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix-Marseille Université, UMR CNRS IRD Université d’Avignon, UMR 237 IRD, Centre IRD Nouméa, BP A 5, 98848 Nouméa cedex (New Caledonia) herve. jourdan @ ird. fr Published on 24 June 2016 jourdan@ird.fr text Zoosystema 2016 2016-06-30 38 2 129 176 http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2016n2a1 journal article 10.5252/z2016n2a1 1638-9387 4578222 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:90DC5B79-725D-46E2-B31E-4DBC65BCD01F Parasaissetia nigra ( Nietner, 1861 ) Lecanium nigrum Nietner, 1861: 9 . MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Bourail County (Gouaro), 9.IX.2001 , on twigs of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis , S. Cazères coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC , CXMNC ); Sarraméa County, 20.X.2002 , on Ananas comosus , C. Mille coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC ); La Foa County ( IAC , SRFP ), 20.XI.2002 , on Psidium guajava , J. Brinon coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC , CXMNC ); the species was also intercepted from Tahiti, 3.XII.2012 , on twigs of H. rosa-sinensis , E. Béné coll., Rosa C. Henderson det. ( NZAC , CXMNC ). PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA . — Cohic (1956 , 1958a ). DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA . — Grande Terre (Bourail and Sarraméa counties). HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA . — Coffea arabica , C. canephora , Ficus spp. ( Cohic 1956 , 1958a ), Annona muricata , Helianthus annuus , Nerium oleander , Solanum melongena , Dioscorea spp., Gossypium spp., Hibiscus rosa-sinensis ( Brun & Chazeau 1980 ) , also found on Ananas comosus , Citrus spp., Persea americana , Psidium guajava ( Mille 2011 ) . OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan. BIOLOGICAL AGENTS.— Encyrtus infelix ( Hymenoptera : Encyrtidae ), Scutellista caerulea ( Hymenoptera : Pteromalidae ) and Lecanicillium lecanii (Zimm.) Zare & W.Gams (2001) (Fungi, Hypocreales , Cordycipitaceae ). NOTE. — Not rated as an economic species.