Species Vinsonia stellifera (Westwood, 1871)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vinsonia pulchella Signoret, V. 1869. Essai sur les cochenilles ou gallinsectes (Homoptères – Coccides), 2e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 8: 829-876 [868] [nom. nud.].
• Coccus stellifer Westwood, J.O. 1871. The Cypripedium scale insect. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette 26: 1006 [iii].
• Vinsonia pulchella Signoret, V. 1872. Essai sur les cochenilles ou gallinsectes (Homoptères – Coccides), 9e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 2: 33-46 [34].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Signoret, V. 1877. Note sur les cochenilles et Asterodiaspis n. gen. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Bulletin 5 6: ccviii-ccix [608] (synonymy of Vinsonia pulchella Signoret, 1872)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ECONOMIC AND CONTROL

Considered a potential threat threat to crops in Florida, USA (see 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.).

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., Wong, C.Y., Chen, S.P. & Chou, L.Y. 1999. [Guidebook to Scale Insects of Taiwan.]. Wufeng, Taichung, Taiwan : Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute 98 pp..

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of adult female by De Lotto, G. 1965. On some Coccidae (Homoptera), chiefly from Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 16: 175–239, Tao, C.C.C., Wong, C.Y. & Chang, Y.C. 1983. Monograph of Coccidae of Taiwan, Republic of China (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Journal of Taiwan Museum 36: 57–107, 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 Hodgson, C.J. 1994. The scale insect family Coccidae: an identification manual to genera. Wallingford, Oxon, UK : CAB International Institute of Entomology 639 pp..

General References

Danzig, E.M. & Konstantinova, G.M. 1990. [On coccid (Homoptera, Coccinea) fauna of Vietnam.]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 209: 38-52 [45] (Vinzonia stellifera: misspelling of genus name)

Fernandes, I.M. 1993. [New data on the knowledge of scale species from the islands of S. Tome and Principe.] Novos dados para o conhecimento da quermofauna das ilhas de S. Tome e Principe. Garcia de Orta. Serie de Zoologia. Lisboa 18(1–2): 111-113 [111] (Winsonia stellifera: misspelling of genus name)

Gómez-Menor Ortega, J. 1929. Idea de la biología de las cochinillas. Revista de Agricultura (Republica Dominicana) 20: 4-5 [4] (Vinsonia estellifera: misspelling of species name)

Seabra, A.F. de 1925. [Insects of S. Tomé arise from the study mission of Professor Sousa da Camara in 1920.] Insectes de S. Tomé provenant de la mission d'étude du Professeur Sousa da Camara en 1920. Anais do Instituto de Agronomia 2: 27-45 [38] (Vinsonia stelifera: misspelling of species name)

Tang, F.T. 1991. [The Coccidae of China]. Taiyuan, P. R. China : Shanxi United Universities Press. [311] (Vinsonia pulohella: misspelling of species name; p. 312 Vinsonia steliftra: misspelling of species name, incorrect citation of 'Signoret' as author)

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 and ) (Stellate Scale)

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