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Species Icerya purchasi Maskell, 1879

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Species Icerya purchasi Maskell, 1879

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan pest of many plant groups but of economic importance on citrus crops.


Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

  • Cook Islands
  • Federated States of Micronesia
  • Fiji
  • Kiribati
  • New Caledonia
  • Niue
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Solomon Islands
  • Tonga
  • Tuvalu
  • Vanuatu
  • Western Samoa

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

  • Colombia
  • French Guiana

Oriental Region

  • Thailand

Palaearctic Region

  • Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Polyphagous, sap-feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

A polyphagous pest.

 

General References

Chou, I. 1947. The scale insects of citrus and their cyanide fumigation. Entomologia Sinica. Shensi 2: 25-39 [30,39] (as Icerya pulchasi, misspelling of genus name)

Gómez-Menor Ortega, J. 1957. Adiciones a los cóccidos de España (4a nota). Eos 33: 39-86 [86] (as Peryceria purchasi, misspelling of genus name)

Gómez-Menor Ortega, J. 1960. Adiciones a los Cóccidos de España. V. (Superfamilia Coccoidea). Eos 36: 157-204 [204] (as Peryceria purchasi, misspelling of genus name)

Gómez-Menor Ortega, J. 1965. Adiciones a los Cóccidos de España, (6a nota). Especies del genero Evallaspis con su distribución geográfica en la Peninsula a las Islas Baleares. Eos 41: 87-114 [114] (as Perycerya purchasi, misspelling of genus name)

Hadzibejli, Z.K. 1983. Coccids of the Subtropical Zone of Gruzia. Tbilisi : Metsniereba 293 pp. [266] (as Ycerya purchasi, misspelling of genus name; on p. 55 as Preicerya purchsi, misspelling of genus and species name)

Kaussari, M. 1957. La deuxième liste des cochenilles de l'Iran. Ministère de l'Agriculture, Entomologie et Phytopathologie Appliquées, Publication du Départment Général de la Protection Plantes. Tehran 16–17: 1-3 [2] (as Icerya purchasi, misspelling of genus name)

Kiritchenko, A.N. 1932. Suborder Coccoidea. Scale insects. Trudy po Zashchite Rastenii, Series Entomologya 5: 63-66 [253] (as Iceria purchasi, misspelling of genus name. Note inconsistency in ScaleNet: Kiritchenko (1932a) is pages 66-69, but the reference is cited as page 253)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
21-Nov-2012 18-Dec-2012 MODIFIED
29-Jun-2012 29-Jun-2012 MODIFIED
02-May-2011 02-May-2011 MOVED
02-May-2011 02-May-2011 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)