Revision of the family Asterolecaniidae (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) in Argentina
Author
Granara de, María C.
Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Instituto Miguel Lillo 205 (4000), Tucumán
Author
Willink
Superior de Entomología “ Dr., Argentina
Author
González, Patricia
e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto Superior de Willink ” (INSUE), Miguel Lillo 205 (4000), Tucumán, Argentina
Author
Stumpf, Christof F.
State University of Alexandria (LSUA), Department of Biological Sciences, Alexandria,
text
Insecta Mundi
2023
2023-06-30
2023
996
1
23
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.10834645
1942-1354
10834645
2A1FB016-1B67-4861-BB8B-2011B26679F1
Russellaspis pustulans
(
Cockerell, 1892
)
Material examined.
Argentina
,
Santiago del Estero
, near Lavalle,
17/v/1998
, host unknown,
MCG
de Willink col., 1(5) 1022
IFML
.
Diagnosis.
With submarginal row of simple disk pores on venter. With tentorial sclerotization on the clypeolabral shield (
Stumpf and Lambdin 2006
).
Comments.
The common name is oleander pit scale. Polyphagous, known to feed on plants in 69 families (
García Morales et al. 2016
). This is the first record of this species in
Argentina
.