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
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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
Lepidosaphes gloverii
(Packard, 1869)
Aspidiotus gloverii
Packard, 1869: 527
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — La Foa County (
IAC
,
SRFP
),
4.VII.2000
, on leaves of
Citrus
sp., S. Cazères coll., det. (
CXMNC
).
PUBLISHED
RECORDS
IN
NEW CALEDONIA
. —
Brun & Chazeau (1980)
.
DISTRIBUTION IN
NEW CALEDONIA
. — All over the New Caledonian Archipelago.
OTHER RECORDS. — Almost cosmopolitan.
HOST- PLANTS IN
NEW CALEDONIA
. —
Citrus
spp. (
Brun & Chazeau 1980
).
BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. —
Aphytis cochereaui
,
A. lepidosaphes
,
Encarsia lounsburyi
(
Hymenoptera
:
Aphelinidae
) and the entomopathogenic fungus
Synnematium jonesii
(Fungi,
Hypocreales
,
Ophiocordycipitaceae
).
NOTE. — This species is a minor pest in the field but is, with
Lepidosaphes beckii
, economically significant for exports of Tahitian and Mexican limes from
New Caledonia
to
New Zealand
.