Species Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead, 1894)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aspidiotus orientalis Newstead, R. 1894. Scale insects in Madras. Indian Museum Notes 3(5): 21-32 [26].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Madras, India.
• Aspidiotus osbeckiae Green, E.E. 1896. Catalogue of Coccidae collected in Ceylon. Indian Museum Notes 4: 2-10 [4].
• Aspidiotus (Aonidiella) cocotiphagus Marlatt, C.L. 1908. New species of diaspine scale insects. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Series 16(2): 11-32 [14].
• Chrysomphalus pedroniformis Cockerell, T.D.A. & Robinson, E. 1915. Descriptions and records of Coccidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34: 105-113 [107].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Darwin; Gove; QUEENSLAND: Ayr; Bamaga; Blacks Beach Mackay; Burketown; Cairns; Charters Towers; Chillagoe; Cloncurry; Coconut Is.; Cooktown; Darnley Is.; Dimbulah; Doomadgee; Dunbar Stn; Horn Is.; Ingham; Kowanyama; Lockhardt River; Mabuiag Is.; Mareeba; Mt Isa; Mundubbera; Murray Is.; Mutarnee; Normanton; Prince of Wales Is.; Rockhampton; Seaforth; Stephens Is.; Sue (Warraber) Is.; Thursday Is.; Townsville; Weipa; Winton; Yam Is.; Yarwun; York Is.; Yorke Is.; WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Kununurra.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Guam
• Papua New Guinea

Nearctic Region

• United States of America

Neotropical Region

• Brazil
• Cuba

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• India
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand

Palaearctic Region

• Israel

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Annona reticulata L. [ANNONACEAE] Custard Apple; Carica papaya L. [CARICACEAE] Pawpaw, Papaya; Azadirachta indica Adr.Juss. [MELIACEAE]; Cocos nucifera L. [ARECACEAE]; Cucurbita pepo L. [CUCURBITACEAE]; Ficus orbicularis Miq. [MORACEAE]; Hibiscus sp. [MALVACEAE]; Lumnitzera racemosa Willd. [COMBRETACEAE]; Mangifera indica L. [ANACARDIACEAE]; Musa sp. [MUSACEAE]; Nerium oleander L. [APOCYNACEAE]; Plumeria rubra L. [APOCYNACEAE]; Ricinus communis L. [EUPHORBIACEAE]; Rosa sp. [ROSACEAE]; Salix sp. [SALICACEAE]; Solanum melongena L. [SOLANACEAE]; Vitis vinifera L. [VITACEAE]; Wrightia pubescens R.Br. [APOCYNACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Solanaceae, blue snake weed, cooh tree, milkwood tree, milky pine.

 

General References

Beardsley, J.W. 1966. Insects of Micronesia. Homoptera: Coccoidea. Insects of Micronesia 6: 377-562 [511] (as Aonidiella orientalis)

Brimblecombe, A.R. 1962. Studies of the Coccoidea. 13. The genera Aonidiella, Chrysomphalus and Quadraspidiotus in Queensland. Queensland Journal of Agricultural Science 19: 403-423 [410] (as Aonidiella orientalis; illustration)

Fernald, M.E. 1903. A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 88: 1-360 [268] (as Aspidiotus orientalis)

Green, E.E. 1916. Remarks on Coccidae from Northern Australia – II. Bulletin of Entomological Research 7: 53-65 [53] (as Aspidiotus orientalis)

Houser, J.S. 1918. The Coccidae of Cuba. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 11: 157-172 [162-163] (as Aspidiotus cocotiphagus)

Rutherford, A. 1915. Some new Ceylon Coccidae. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 24: 111-118 [106-107] (as Aspidiotus orientalis; description)

Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1988. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Part 1. The armoured scales (Diaspididae). London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 290 pp. [42-44] (as Aonidiella orientalis; description; illustration)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
14-Dec-2022	DIASPIDIDAE	29-May-2023	MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018	COCCOIDEA	29-May-2023	MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018	DIASPIDIDAE	29-May-2023	MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018		29-May-2023	MODIFIED
21-Nov-2012		29-May-2023	MODIFIED
29-Jun-2012		29-May-2023	MODIFIED
		29-May-2023	MODIFIED