Species Pulvinaria urbicola Cockerell, 1893

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pulvinaria urbicola Cockerell, T.D.A. 1893. A list of West Indian Coccidae. Journal of the Institute of Jamaica 1: 252-256 [255] [nom. nud.].
• Pulvinaria urbicola Cockerell, T.D.A. 1893. Two new species of Pulvinaria from Jamaica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1893: 159-163 [160].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W., 1990) [148] (female; tropical South Pacific); (Hamon, A.B. & Williams, M.L., 1984) [87] (female; USA, Florida); (Beardsley, J.W., 1966) [491] (female; Micronesia); (Zimmerman, E.C., 1948) [333] (female; Hawaii)

STRUCTURE

See colour photograph in 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..

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., 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. and by 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..

BIOLOGY

Panis, A. & Marro, J.P. 1977. L'elevage massif de Chloropulvinaria urbicola (Cockerell) (Homoptera, Coccoidea). Fruits 32: 599–606 described a method for mass rearing. The encapsulation of eggs of Encyrtus infelix (Embleton) was determined by Blumberg, D. & Goldenberg, S. 1992. Encapsulation of eggs of two species of Encyrtus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) by soft scales (Homoptera: Coccidae) in six parasitoid-host interactions. Israel Journal of Entomology 25–26: 57–65.

General References

Neumann, G., O'Dowd, D.J., Gullan, P.J. & Green, P.T. 2013. First record of Pulvinaria urbicola Cockerell (Hemiptera: Coccidae), a potentially damaging scale insect, on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1226861513000848]

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. (Urbicola Soft 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/. (Cottony Urbicola Scale)

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