Species Pulvinaria psidii Maskell, 1893

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pulvinaria psidii Maskell, W.M. 1893. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species from Australia, India, Sandwich Islands, Demerara, and South Pacific. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 25: 201-252 [223].
• Pulvinaria cupaniae Cockerell, T.D.A. 1893. Two new species of Pulvinaria from Jamaica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1893: 159-163 [159].
• Pulvinaria psidii philippina Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Some Coccidae from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences 10: 127-136 [132].
• Pulvinaria darwiniensis Froggatt, W.W. 1915. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 26: 411-423, 511-516, 603-615, 754-764, 1055-1064 [414].
• Lecanium vacuolatum Dash, S.J. 1916. Revised list of the Coccidae of Barbados. Report on the Department of Agriculture, Barbados 1914–1915: 41-43 [42] [nom. nud.].
• Pulvinaria cussoniae Hall, W.J. 1932. Observations on the Coccidae of southern Rhodesia. Stylops 1: 185-195 [188].
• Pulvinaria gymnosporiae Hall, W.J. 1932. Observations on the Coccidae of southern Rhodesia. Stylops 1: 185-195 [189].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Green, E.E. 1909. On a new species of Kermes destructive to oak trees in north India. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 45: 10-12 [265] (synonymy of Pulvinaria cupaniae Cockerell, 1893)
• Morrison, H. 1920. The nondiaspine Coccidae of the Philippine Islands, with descriptions of apparently new species. Philippine Journal of Science 17: 147-202 [185] (synonymy of Pulvinaria psidii philippina Cockerell, 1905)
• Hodgson, C.J. 1968. Further notes on the genus Pulvinaria Targ. (Homoptera: Coccoidea) from the Ethiopian region. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 31: 141-174 [168] (Pulvinaria gymnosporiae Hall, 1932; Pulvinaria cussoniae Hall, 1932)
• Qin, T.K. & Gullan, P.J. 1992. A revision of the Australian pulvinariine soft scales (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccidae). Journal of Natural History 26: 103-164 [144] (synonymy of Pulvinaria darwiniensis Froggatt, 1915)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Kosztarab, M., 1996) [375] (female; northeastern North America); (Tang, F.T., 1991) [226] (female; China); (Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W., 1990) [148] (female; tropical South Pacific); (Hamon, A.B. & Williams, M.L., 1984) [87] (female; USA, Florida); (Tao, C.C.C., Wong, C.Y. & Chang, Y.C., 1983) [83] (female; Taiwan); (Kawai, S., 1980) [148-150] (female; Japan); (Williams, M.L. & Kosztarab, M., 1972) [119] (female; USA, Virginia); (Ezzat, Y.M. & Hussein, N.A., 1969) [373] (female; Egypt); (Beardsley, J.W., 1966) [491] (female; Micronesia); (Borchsenius, N.S., 1957) [205] (female; Palaearctic Region); (Zimmerman, E.C., 1948) [333] (female; Hawaii); (Green, E.E., 1909) [264-265] (female; Ceylon)

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of adult female by Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Homoptera: Sternorrhyncha. pp. 268 in Zimmerman, E.C. (ed). Insects of Hawaii. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press Vol. 5 464 pp., Hodgson (1968), Ezzat, Y.M. & Hussein, N.A. 1969. Redescription and classification of the family Coccidae in U.A.R. (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Egypte 51: 359–426, Williams, M.L. & Kosztarab, M. 1972. Morphology and systematics of the Coccidae of Virginia with notes on their biology (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Research Division Bulletin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 74: 1–215, 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., Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1990. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Pt. 3: The soft scales (Coccidae) and other families. London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 267 pp., Tang, F.T. 1991. [The Coccidae of China]. Taiyuan, P. R. China : Shanxi United Universities Press and by Kosztarab, M. 1996. Scale insects of Northeastern North America. Identification, biology, and distribution. Martinsburg, Virginia : Virginia Museum of Natural History 650 pp..

BIOLOGY

Green, E.E. 1909. On a new species of Kermes destructive to oak trees in north India. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 45: 10–12 reported on overlapping generation in Sri Lanka. Takahashi, R. 1939. Some Aleyrodidae, Aphididae, and Coccidae from Micronesia (Homoptera). Tenthredo. (Acta Entomologica. Takeuchi Entomological Laboratory) 2: 234–272 recorded three generations per year in Taiwan. Salama, H.S. & Saleh, M.R. 1970. Distribution of the scale insect Pulvinaria psidii Maskell (Coccoidea) on orchard trees in relation to environmental factors. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie 66: 380–385 reporetd two generations per year in Egypt. El-Minshawy, A.M. & Moursi, K. 1976. Biological studies on some soft scale-insects (Hom. Coccidae) attacking guava trees in Egypt. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie 81: 363–371 studied the duration of development and fecundity on guava in Egypt. Sanaa et al. (1997) studied in Egypt the effect of treatment by various levels (0, 20, 40, 80 and 160 mg K/L) of Schinus terebinthifolius seedlings, on their rate of infestation by P. psidii.

STRUCTURE

See colour photograph in Kawai, S. 1980. Scale insects of Japan in colors. Tokyo : National Agricultural Education Association 455 pp. [figs 6.24 a, b) and 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..

ECONOMIC AND CONTROL

A pest of mango in Egypt (see Nada, S., Abd Rabo, S. & Hussein, G.E.D. 1990. Scale insects infesting mango trees in Egypt (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium of Scale Insects Studies, Cracow, Poland, August 1990: 133–134).

Common Name References

CAB International 1994. Pulvinaria psidii Maskell. Distribution Maps of Insect Pests. Series A Map no. 59: 2 pp. (Guava Mealy Scale)

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 and ) (Green Shield Scale)

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