Species Antonina crawi Cockerell, 1900

Museums

Regional Maps

• Antonina crawi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1900. Some Coccidae quarantined at San Francisco. Psyche (Cambridge) 9: 70-72 [70].
• Antonina socialis Newstead, R. 1901. Observations on Coccidae (No. 19). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 37: 81-86 [85].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Williams, D.J. 1962. The British Pseudococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 12: 1-79 [8] (synonymy of Antonina socialis Newstead, 1901)

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Wu, S., 2001) [48] (female; China); (Hendricks, H. & Kosztarab, M., 1999) [97] (female; world); (Tang, F.T., 1992) [20] (female; China); (Danzig, E.M., 1988) [706] (female; Far East of Russia); (Williams, D.J., 1985) [44] (female; Australia); (Wang, T.C., 1982) [24] (female; China); (Kawai, S., 1980) [122] (female; Japan); (Afifi, S. & Kosztarab, M., 1967) [14] (female; world); (McKenzie, H.L., 1967) [74] (female; U.S.A., California); (Yang, S.P. & Kosztarab, M., 1967) [13, 49] (larva; world); (Ferris, G.F., 1953) [289] (female; North America); (Borchsenius, N.S., 1949) [312] (female; Palaearctic Region); (Zimmerman, E.C., 1948) [150] (female; Hawaii); (Kuwana, S.I., 1932) [214] (female; Japan)

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Ferris in Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Homoptera: Sternorrhyncha. pp. 268 in Zimmerman, E.C. (ed). Insects of Hawaii. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press Vol. 5 464 pp., Ferris, G.F. 1953. Atlas of the Scale Insects of North America, v. 6, The Pseudococcidae (Part II). Palo Alto, California : Stanford University Press 506 pp., McKenzie, H.L. 1967. Mealybugs of California with taxonomy, biology, and control of North American species (Homoptera: Cooccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Berkeley : Univ. Calif. Press 526 pp., Tereznikova, E.M. 1975. [Coccids. In, The Fauna of Ukraine.]. Akademii Nauk Ukrains'koi SSR Instituta Zoologicheskogo 20(18): 295, Tang, F.T. 1977. [The scale insects of horticulture and forest of China]. Liaoning, China : The Institute of Gardening Vol. 1 259 pp., Paik, W.H. (ed.) 1978. Illustrated flora and fauna of Korea. Insecta (VI). [Korea] : Min. Education (Samhwa Publ. Co. Ltd) Vol. 22 481 pp., Danzig, E.M. [Dantsig] 1980. Coccoids of the Far East USSR (Homoptera, Coccinea) with an analysis of the phylogeny of coccids of the world fauna. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 124: 1–343, Williams, D.J. & Granara de Willink, M.C. 1992. Mealybugs of Central and South America. London, England : CAB International Institute of Entomology 635 pp. and by Tang, F.T. 1992. [The Pseudococcidae of China]. Taigu, Shanxi, China : Shanxi Agricultural University 768 pp.. Good description and illustration of the adult male given by Beardsley, J.W. 1965. The male of Antonina crawii Cockerell (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 19: 47–49 and by Afifi, S. & Kosztarab, M. 1967. Studies on the morphology and taxonomy of the males of Antonina and one related genus (Homoptera: Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae). Research Division Bulletin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 15: 1–43. Good description of the first-instar nymph and female second-instar nymph given by Yang, S.P. & Kosztarab, M. 1967. A morphological and taxonomical study on the immature stages of Antonina and of the related genera (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Research Division Bulletin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 3: 73 pp.. Good description of the adult female given by Borchsenius, N.S. 1949. Insects Homoptera. suborders mealybugs and scales (Coccoidea). Family mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). Vol. VII. Fauna SSSR. Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk SSSR 38: 1–382.

BIOLOGY

Occurring at bases of leaves.

STRUCTURE

Nur et al. (1987) reported chromosome number 2n=12. Colour photograph of the adult female given by Kawai, S. 1980. Scale insects of Japan in colors. Tokyo : National Agricultural Education Association 455 pp..

ECONOMIC AND CONTROL

Parasites in the Palaearctic Region discussed by Trjapitsin, V.A. 1989. [Parasitic Hymenoptera of the Fam. Encyrtidae of Palaearctics]. Leningrad : Akademia Nauk SSSR. Zoologicheskii 487 pp..

General References

Borchsenius, N.S. 1934. Survey of the coccids fauna of the Black Sea Coast of the Caucacus. Abkhazia : Quarantine Station 37 pp. [13] (Antonina bambusae: misidentification discovered by : 313)

Ferris, G.F. 1918. The California species of mealy bugs. Stanford University Publications, University Series 1918: 1-78 [77] (Antonina crawii: misspelling of species name)

McKenzie, H.L. 1967. Mealybugs of California with taxonomy, biology, and control of North American species (Homoptera: Cooccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Berkeley : Univ. Calif. Press 526 pp. [74] (Antonina crawii: misspelling of species name)

Tao, C.C.C. 1999. List of Coccoidea (Homoptera) of China. Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Special Publication No. 78: 1-176 [9] (Antonina crawii: misspelling of species name)

Common Name References

McKenzie, H.L. 1967. Mealybugs of California with taxonomy, biology, and control of North American species (Homoptera: Cooccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Berkeley : Univ. Calif. Press 526 pp. (cited also by ) (Cottony Bamboo Mealybug)

Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Homoptera: Sternorrhyncha. 268 in Zimmerman, E.C. (ed.). Insects of Hawaii. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press Vol. 5 464 pp. (Cottony Bamboo Scale)

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