Species Rastrococcus nivalis (Maskell, 1893)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudococcus nivalis 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 [234].

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Williams, D.J., 1989) [439] (female; world); (Williams, D.J., 1985) [341] (female; Australia)

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Williams, D.J. 1985. Australian Mealybugs. London : British Museum (Natural History) 431 pp. and Williams, D.J. 1989. The mealybug genus Rastrococcus Ferris (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). Systematic Entomology 14(4): 433–486. Adult female redescribed and illustrated by Williams (1985) and Williams, D.J. 1989. A new genus and two new species of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) from South Africa on bulbs and corms imported into Great Britain. Bulletin of Entomological Research 79: 643–648.

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