Species Aspidiotus destructor Signoret, 1869

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• Aspidiotus destructor Signoret, V. 1869. Essai sur les cochenilles ou gallinsectes (Homoptères – Coccides) 4e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 9: 109-138 [120-121] [illustration].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Reunion Is., Indian Ocean.
• Aspidiotus transparens Green, E.E. 1890. Insect pests of the tea plant. p. 22. [20].
• Aspidiotus fullax Cockerell 1893. A list of West Indian Coccidae. Journal of the Institute of Jamaica 1: 252-256 [255].
• Aspidiotus cocotis Newstead, R. 1893. Observations of Coccidae (No. 5). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 29: 185-188 [186].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Darwin; Goromuru River Outstation; Mandorah 3km N; QUEENSLAND: Aurukun; Badu Is.; Bamaga; Batavia Cape York; Boigu Is.; Bowen; Bramston Beach; Bridge Ck Cook Hwy; Buderim; Cairns; Cape York; Daintree; Dauan Is.; East Palmerston; Graham Cook Hwy; Hammond Is.; Horne Is.; Innisfail; Kamerunga; Kimberley Pt, Daintree River; Kowanyama; Kubin Moa Is.; Lindeman Is.; Lockhardt River; Moa Is.; Moreton; Mornington Is.; Mossman; Murray Is.; North Qld; Packe Is.; Palm Cove; Prince of Wales Is.; Rockhampton; Saibai Is.; South Johnstone; St Pauls Moa Is.; Stephens Is.; Sue Is.; Tangalooma; Thursday Is.; Townsville; Tully; Weipa; Yam Is.; Yeppoon; Bourbon Islands; South Pacific; West Indies.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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

• Mauritius
• Réunion
• Togo

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands
• Western Samoa

Nearctic Region

• Mexico

Neotropical Region

• Cuba
• Guyana

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• Hong Kong
• India
• Indonesia
• Laccadive (= Cannanore) Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Taiwan
• Thailand

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Annona reticulata L. [ANNONACEAE] Custard Apple; Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE] Orange Mistletoe; Carica papaya L. [CARICACEAE] Pawpaw, Papaya; Annona squamosa L. [ANNONACEAE] Sugar Apple; Neodypsis decaryi Jumelle [ARECACEAE] triangle palm; Anacardium occidentale L. [ANACARDIACEAE]; Annona sp. [ANNONACEAE]; Barringtonia sp. [LECYTHIDACEAE]; Cochlospermum gillivraei Benth. [COCHLOSPERMACEAE]; Manihot esculenta Crantz [EUPHORBIACEAE] (cassava, tapioca, manioc, mandioca, yuca); Terminalia catappa L. [COMBRETACEAE]; Plumeria rubra L. [APOCYNACEAE]; Pandanus odoratissimus L.f. [PANDANACEAE]; Musa sp. [MUSACEAE]; Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. [SOLANACEAE]; Cocos nucifera L. [ARECACEAE]; Chrysalidocarpus lutescens H. Wendl. [ARECACEAE]; Callistemon sp. [MYRTACEAE]; Annona glabra L. [ANNONACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Oil palm, yams.

 

General References

Beardsley, J.W. 1966. Insects of Micronesia. Homoptera: Coccoidea. Insects of Micronesia 6: 377-562 [513-514] (as Aspidiotus destructor)

Comstock, J.H. 1883. Second report on scale insects, including a monograph of the sub-family Diaspidinae of the family Coccidae and a list, with notes of the other species of scale insects found in North America. Cornell University Agricultural Experimental Station, Department of Entomology Report 2: 47-142 [75-76] (as Aspidiotus destructor)

Doane, R.W. & Hadden, E. 1909. Coccidae from the Society Islands. The Canadian Entomologist 41: 296-300 [297] (as Aspidiotus destructor)

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 [257] (as Aspidiotus destructor)

Ferris, G.F. 1941. The genus Aspidiotus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). (Contribution No. 28). Microentomology 6(2): 33-70 [51-53] (as Aspidiotus destructor; description; illustation)

Froggatt, W.W. 1914. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 25: 311- 319 [311] (as Aspidiotus destructor)

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

Houser, J.S. 1918. The Coccidae of Cuba. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 11: 157-172 [165] (as Aspidiotus destructor)

Kuwana, I. 1933. The diaspine Coccidae of Japan, VII. Scientific Bulletin of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Japan, Tokyo 3: 1-42 [9-10] (as Aspidiotus destructor; also as Aspidiotus transparens; description; illustration;)

MacGillivray, A.D. 1921. The Coccidae. Tables for the identification of the subfamilies and some of the more important genera and species together with discussions of their anatomy and life history. Urbana, Illinois : Scarab Company vi 502 pp. [396] (as Aspidiotus destructor)

Maskell, W.M. 1892. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species, and remarks on coccids from New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 24: 1-64 [dated 1891] [12] (as Aspidiotus destructor)

Maskell, W.M. 1897. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species and discussions of points of interest. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 29: 293-331 [297-298] (as Aspidiotus destructor; illustration)

Newstead, R. 1906. Report on insects sent from Der Kaiserliche Biologische Anstalt fur Land- und Forstwirtschaft Dahlem, Berlin. Quarterly Journal, Institute of Commercial Research in the Tropics. University of Liverpool 1: 73-74 [73] (as Aspidiotus destructor)

Newstead, R. 1908. On a collection of Coccidae and other insects affecting some cultivated and wild plants in Java and in tropical Western Africa. Journal of Economic Biology. London 3: 33-42 [33-34] (as Aspidiotus destructor)

Takagi, S. 1969. Diaspididae of Taiwan based on material collected in connection with the Japan-U.S. Co-operative Science Programme, 1965 (Homoptera: Coccoidea) Part 1. Insecta Matsumurana 32: 1-110 (as Aspidiotus destructor; description; illustration)

Takahashi, R. 1934. Observations on the Coccidae of Formosa. IV. Department of Agriculture, Government Research Institute Formosa, Japan 63: 1-38 [33] (as Aspidiotus transparens)

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. [53-56] (as Aspidiotus destructor; description; illustration)

 

History of changes

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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
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