Species Planococcus mali Ezzat & McConnell, 1956

Museums

Regional Maps

• Planococcus mali Ezzat, Y.M. & McConnell, H.S. 1956. The mealybug tribe Planococcini (Pseudococcidae: Homoptera). Bulletin of the Maryland Agriculture Experiment Station A84: 1-108 [93].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNEC 1 adult ♀, NEW ZEALAND: intercepted at Hawaii, Honolulu.

  Type host:

   Olearia chathamica [ASTERACEAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Cox, J.M., 1989) [8] (female; world); (Cox, J.M., 1987) [74] (female; New Zealand); (Williams, D.J., 1985) [272] (female; Australia)

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Ezzat, Y.M. & McConnell, H.S. 1956. The mealybug tribe Planococcini (Pseudococcidae: Homoptera). Bulletin of the Maryland Agriculture Experiment Station A84: 1–108 and by Cox, J.M. 1987. Pseudococcidae (Insecta: Hemiptera). In, Duval, C.T. (ed). Fauna of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand : DSIR Science Information Publishing Centre Vol. 11 229 pp., Cox, J.M. 1989. The mealybug genus Planococcus (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 58(1): 1–78.

ECONOMIC AND CONTROL

Reported as a pest of blackcurrants in New Zealand (see Cox, J.M. 1989. The mealybug genus Planococcus (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 58(1): 1–78).

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