Species Vryburgia amaryllidis (Bouché, 1837)

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• Coccus amaryllidis Bouché, P.F. 1837. Beschreibung einer neuen Art Schildlaus Coccus amarylilidis Bouche nebst mitteilungen zur Vertilgung dieser und anderer Schildläuse allg. Gartenzeitung 5: 99-101 [99].
• Coccus liliacearum Bouché, P.F. 1844. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Scharlachläuse (Coccina). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 5: 293-302 [300].
• Pseudococcus lounsburyi Brain, C.K. 1912. Contribution to the knowledge of mealy bugs, genus Pseudococcus in the vicinity of Cape Town, South Africa. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 5: 177-189 [179].
• Trionymus crini Hall, W.J. 1923. Further observations on the Coccidae of Egypt. Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Service 36: 1-61 [11].
• Pseudococcus (Trionymus) peregrinus Green, E.E. 1925. Observations on British Coccidae. – IX. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 61: 34-44 [40].
• Chorizococcus microporus McKenzie, H.L. 1960. Taxonomic study of California mealybugs with descriptions of new species (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Hilgardia 29: 681-770 [699].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hall, W.J. 1925. Notes on Egyptian Coccidae with descriptions of new species. Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Service 64: 1-31 [20] (synonymy of Trionymus crini Hall, 1923)
• McKenzie, H.L. 1964. Fourth taxonomic study of California mealybugs, with additional species from North America, South America and Japan (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Hilgardia 35: 211-272 [225] (synonymy of Chorizococcus microporus McKenzie, 1960)
• Ben-Dov, Y. & Cox, J.M. 1990. The identity of five species of scale insects (Hem., Homoptera, Coccoidea), living on ornamental plants, originally described by P. F. Bouché. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 126: 79-84 [80] (synonymy of Coccus liliacearum Bouche, 1844; synonymy of Pseudococcus lounsburyi Brain, 1912)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Williams, D.J., 1985) [387] (female; Australia); (Brookes, H.M., 1976) [422] (female; Australia); (De Lotto, G., 1967) [22] (female; South Africa); (McKenzie, H.L., 1967) [89] (female; U.S.A., California); (McKenzie, H.L., 1964) [220] (female; North America); (Ezzat, Y.M., 1962) [68] (female; Egypt); (McKenzie, H.L., 1961) [17] (female; North America); (Beardsley, J.W., 1960) [213] (male; Hawaii); (McKenzie, H.L., 1960) [695] (female; North America); (Ferris, G.F., 1953) [483] (female; North America); (Ferris, G.F., 1950) [252] (female; North America); (Borchsenius, N.S., 1949) [93] (female; Palaearctic Region); (Zimmerman, E.C., 1948) [257] (female; Hawaii)

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Ferris in 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. (as Trionymus lounsburyi), Ferris, G.F. 1950. Atlas of the Scale Insects of North America. (Ser. 5, vol. 5). The Pseudococcidae (Part I). Palo Alto, California : Stanford University Press 278 pp., McKenzie, H.L. 1967. Mealybugs of California with taxonomy, biology, and control of North American species (Homoptera: Cooccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Berkeley : Univ. Calif. Press 526 pp. and by Cox, J.M. 1987. Pseudococcidae (Insecta: Hemiptera). In, Duval, C.T. (ed). Fauna of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand : DSIR Science Information Publishing Centre Vol. 11 229 pp.. Good description and illustration of the adult male given by Beardsley, J.W. 1960. A preliminary study of the males of some Hawaiian mealybugs (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 17: 199–243 (as Trionymus lounsburyi). Good description of the adult female given by Borchsenius, N.S. 1949. Insects Homoptera. suborders mealybugs and scales (Coccoidea). Family mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). Vol. VII. Fauna SSSR. Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk SSSR 38: 1–382

BIOLOGY

James, H.C. 1937. Sex ratios and the status of the male in Pseudococcinae. Bulletin of Entomological Research 28: 429–461 showed that reproduction is sexual (in laboratory population in England) and evaluated its sex ratio. Living on the bulbs of the host plant.

ECONOMIC AND CONTROL

In the more temperate Regions of the world, this mealybug often causes concern in greenhouses on plants of the families Liliaceae, Iridaceae and Agavaceae

General References

Marotta, S. 1987. An annotated list of the Italian mealybugs. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri', Portici 43[1986](Suppl.): 107-116 [108] (Chorizococcus lounsbury: misspelling of species name)

Signoret, V. 1869. Essai sur les cochenilles ou gallinsectes (Homoptères – Coccides), 2e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 8: 829-876 [860] (Coccus liliaceorum: misspelling of species name)

Common Name References

McKenzie, H.L. 1960. Taxonomic study of California mealybugs with descriptions of new species (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Hilgardia 29: 681-770 (cited also by ) (Lily Bulb Mealybug, Succulent Mealybug)

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