Species Pulvinaria hydrangeae Steinweden, 1946

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• Pulvinaria hydrangeae Steinweden, J.B. 1946. The identity of certain common American species of Pulvinaria (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). (Contribution no. 49). Microentomology 11: 1-28 [7].

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Hodgson, C.J. & Henderson, R.C., 2000) [212] (female; New zealand); (Kosztarab, M., 1996) [375] (female; northeastern North America); (Tang, F.T., 1991) [234] (female; China); (Gill, R.J., 1988) [85] (female; USA, California); (Hamon, A.B. & Williams, M.L., 1984) [87] (female; USA, Florida); (Kawai, S., 1980) [148-150] (female; Japan); (Williams, M.L. & Kosztarab, M., 1972) [119] (female; USA, Virginia)

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of adult female by Hamon, A.B. & Williams, M.L. 1984. The soft scale insects of Florida (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). In, Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas. Gainesville : Fla. Dept. of Agric. & Consumer Serv. Div. Plant Ind. 194 pp., Gill, R.J. 1988. The Scale Insects of California: Part 1. The Soft Scales (Homoptera : Coccoidea : Coccidae). Sacramento, California : California Dept of Food & Agriculture 132 pp., Kosztarab, M. 1996. Scale insects of Northeastern North America. Identification, biology, and distribution. Martinsburg, Virginia : Virginia Museum of Natural History 650 pp. and by Hodgson, C.J. & Henderson, R.C. 2000. Coccidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea). Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 259 pp..

BIOLOGY

Pellizzari-Scaltriti, G. 1976. [Observations on Syngenaspis parlatoriae Sulc and on other scale insects exclusive to conifers.]. Bollettino di Zoologia Agraria e Bachicoltura. Milano II 13: 1–21 recorded one an.nual generation in Italy. Nur, U. 1963. Meiotic parthenogenesis and heterochromatization in a soft scale, Pulvinaria hydrangeae (Coccoidea: Homoptera). Chromosoma (Berlin) 14: 123–139 studied the meiotic parthenogenesis of this species

STRUCTURE

See colour photograph in Kawai, S. 1980. Scale insects of Japan in colors. Tokyo : National Agricultural Education Association 455 pp. [figs 6.34 a, b) and Hodgson, C.J. & Henderson, R.C. 2000. Coccidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea). Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 259 pp..

ECONOMIC AND CONTROL

A noxious urban pest in Bruxelles Region (see Tondeur, R., Schiffers, B.C. & Verstraeten, Ch. 1990. [Differential susceptibility of Eupulvinaria hydrangeae Steinweiden (Homoptera: Coccidae) to 22 contact insecticides]. Mededeelingen van de Faculteit Landbouwwetenschappen, Rijksuniversiteit Gent 55(2b): 637–646).

Common Name References

Hamon, A.B. & Williams, M.L. 1984. The soft scale insects of Florida (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). In, Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas. Gainesville : Fla. Dept. of Agric. & Consumer Serv. Div. Plant Ind. 194 pp. (Cited also by ) (Cottony Hydrangea Scale)

Naumann, I.D., Ingram, R.J. & Floyd, R. 2002. Australian Insect Common Names, based on CSIRO Handbook of Australian Insect Names. 6th edn 1993. http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/. (Hydrangea Scale)

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