Species Orthezia insignis Browne, 1887

Museums

Regional Maps

• Orthezia insignis Browne, E.T. 1887. Notes on a species of Orthezia found in Kew Gardens. Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club 3: 169-172 [169].
• Orthezia nacrea Buckton, G.B. 1894. A new coccid from Ceylon. Indian Museum Notes 3: 103-104 [103].
• Orthezia costis Ghesquière, J. 1933. Assemblée mensuelle du 7 octobre 1933. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 73: 267-269 [268] [nom. nud.; this species "has never been validated through the publication of a description, and recently Dr. Ghesquière (in litt.) has advised that it was placed eventually as identical with Orthezia insignis Browne", see Morrison, H. 1952. Classification of the Ortheziidae. Supplement to Classification of scale insects of the subfamily Ortheziinae. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1052: 1–80: 20].

  Secondary source:

   Morrison, H. 1952. Classification of the Ortheziidae. Supplement to Classification of scale insects of the subfamily Ortheziinae. United States Department of Agriculture. Technical Bulletin 1052: 1-80.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Green, E.E. 1895. An insect enemy (Orthezia insignis) of planters and agriculturists generally; with an account of remedies. In, [Unknown] (ed.). Collected Papers of E.E. Green. Colombo, Ceylon : Ferguson. [1] (synonymy of Orthezia nacrea Buckton, 1894)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Kosztarab, M., 1996) [59] (female; species of northeastern North America Ortheziidae); (Gill, R.J., 1993) [77] (female; Morphological key to California Ortheziidae); (Danzig, E.M., 1971) [806] (female; key to species of the family Ortheziidae); (Danzig, E.M., 1964) [621] (female; Orthezia species in SSSR); (Morrison, H., 1952) [5] (adult female; Species in the Insignis group of Orthezia); (Morrison, H., 1925) [106] (adult female; Species of the Subgenus Orthezia); (MacGillivray, A.D., 1921) [112] (adult female; Species of Orthezia)

GENERAL

Detailed description and illustration by Morrison, H. 1925. Classification of scale insects of the subfamily Ortheziinae. Journal of Agricultural Research 30: 97–154.

BIOLOGY

Detailed discussion of life history by Ezzat, Y.M. 1956. Studies on the Kew Bug, Orthezia insignis Browne [Coccoidea-Ortheziidae]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Egypte 40: 415–431. Orthezia insignis can do considerable damage to Lantana sp., see Holloway, J.K. 1964. Projects in biological control of weeds. London : Chapman & Hall 844 pp..

SYSTEMATICS

Morrison, H. 1952. Classification of the Ortheziidae. Supplement to Classification of scale insects of the subfamily Ortheziinae. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1052: 1–80 states that this insect has gone under the authorship of J.W. Douglas almost exclusively since its first description, but Lindinger, in 1935, called attention to the fact that Browne's notes and illustrations on the species constituted a description, though that was not his intention, and appeared in print before the Douglas description of it as new. Some could consider Douglas' description as a junior synonym and homonym.

STRUCTURE

Adult female oval, with little secretion (see Morrison, H. 1925. Classification of scale insects of the subfamily Ortheziinae. Journal of Agricultural Research 30: 97–154).

ECONOMIC AND CONTROL

Biological control discussed by Fulmek, L. 1943. Wirtsindex der Aleyrodiden- und Cocciden- Parasiten. Entomologische Beihefte 10: 1–100 and Bartlett, B.R. 1978. Coccidae. In, Clausen, C.P. (ed). Introduced Parasites and Predators of Arthropod Pests and Weeds: A World Review. Washington, D.C. : Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture 545 pp.. Ebeling, W. 1959. Subtropical fruit pests. Los Angeles : Division of Agricultural Sciences, Univ. of Calif. 436 pp. states that this species is a pest of citrus in India and South America. McDaniel, E.I. 1931. Insects and allied pests of plants grown under glass. Bulletin of the Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station (Entomology Department) [1931]: 213–214 provides instructions for chemical control.

General References

Gómez-Menor Ortega, J. 1929. Idea de la biología de las cochinillas. Revista de Agricultura (Republica Dominicana) 20: 4-5 [4] (Orchesia insignis: misspelling of genus name)

Common Name References

American Association of Economic Entomologists 1931. Common names of insects approved for general use by the American Association of Economic Entomologists. Journal of Economic Entomology 24: 1273-1310 (cited also by ) (Greenhouse Orthezia)

Bodkin, G.E. 1913. Insects injurious to sugar cane in British Guiana, and their natural enemies. Journal of the Board of Agriculture of British Guiana 7: 29-32 (Croton Bug)

Fuller, C. 1907. The scale insects, bark lice and mealy bugs. Natal Agricultural Journal 3: 1031-1055 (Sugar-iced Bug)

Gill, R.J. 1993. The Scale Insects of California: The Minor Families (Homoptera : Coccoidea). Sacramento, California : California Dept of Food & Agriculture Part 2. (Kew Bug, Lantana Blight, Marsupial Coccid)

Kotinsky, J. 1906. Report of the Assistant Entomologist. Second Report of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry of the Territory of Hawaii. 113-166 pp. (Maui Blight)

Ramakrishna Ayyar, T.V. 1919. Some south Indian coccids of economic importance. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 26: 621-628 (Lantana Bug)

Richard, C. 1998. Ortheziidae. In, Kozár, F. (ed.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coccoidea. Budapest, Hungary : Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 526 pp. (Greenhouse Mealybug)

Woodruff, R.E., Beck, B.M., Skelley, P.E., Schotman, C.Y.L. & Thomas, M.C. 1998. Checklist and Bibliography of the Insects of Grenada and the Grenadines. Gainesville, FL : Center for Systematic Entomology 286 pp. (Jacaranda Bug)

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