Subspecies Icerya seychellarum seychellarum (Westwood, 1855)

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• Dorthesia seychellarum Westwood, J.O. 1855. The Seychelles Dorthesia. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette 51: 836 [836].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀ (types from a palm imported from the Seychelles Islands), England.
• Coccus sacchari Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1867. [Comment on] M. ed. Morin adresse une lettre sur les ravages produits a l'Ile de la Réunion par des insectes qui attaquent la canne à sucre. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. Paris 19: 450-451 [451].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♀ (type material lost, see Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. 2005. ScaleNet. http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet), Mauritius.

  Type host:

   Saccharum officinarum Linnaeus [GRAMINAE]
• Icerya crocea Green, E.E. 1896. Catalogue of Coccidae collected in Ceylon. Indian Museum Notes 4: 2-10 [7].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Sri Lanka, Pundaloya.

  Type host:

   Citrus sp. [RUTACEAE]
• Icerya candida Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Some Coccidae from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences 10: 127-136 [128].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM ♀ (collected 4 June (1905?)), Philippines, Manila.
• Icerya okadae Kuwana, S.I. 1907. Coccidae of Japan, I. A synoptical list of Coccidae of Japan with descriptions of thirteen new species. Bulletin of the Imperial Central Agricultural Experiment Station, Japan 1: 177-212 [178].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♀ and first instar, Japan.

  Type host:

   Citrus sp. [RUTACEAE] (on orange tree)

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [27] (for Coccus sacchari)
• Green, E.E. 1922. The Coccidae of Ceylon. London : Dulau & Co. Vol. 5. [440] (for Icerya crocea)
• Morrison, H. 1928. A classification of the higher groups and genera of the coccid family Margarodidae. United States Department of Agriculture. Technical Bulletin 52: 1-240 [208] (for Icerya candida, also p. 178 for Icerya okadae)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Pantropical and subtropical - widespread.

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

A common pest on various host plants in parts of Asia, several Pacific islands, Japan and Africa; reported on unsuccessful attempts to control this pest in South Africa with the predatory fly Cryptochaetum monophlebi Skuse, introduced from Mauritius and Madagascar.

General References

Kawecki, Z. 1965. The importance of the degree of reduction in male wing apparatus for studies on the phylogenesis of scale insects (Homoptera, Coccoidea). Zoologica Poloniae, Krakow 14: 205-211 [206] (misspelling of Icerya seychellarum as Iceria seychellarum)

Vayssière, P. 1926. Contribution à l'étude biologique et systematique des Coccidae. Annales des Epiphyties 12: 197-382 [340] (misspelling of I. crocae for I. crocea)

Common Name References

Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. 2005. ScaleNet. http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet. (Common White Mealybug)

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