A new scale insect host family (Hemiptera: Asterolecaniidae) for Aphytis (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) in China
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DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1618509
Abstract: ABSTRACT Aphytis wasps are among the most important natural enemies of scale insects, and armoured scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) have generally been considered as the only hosts of the genus Aphytis. Host records from non-diaspidids… read more here.
Keywords: aphytis; scale insect; hemiptera; new scale ... See more keywords
A mid-Cretaceous female scale insect (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) in Burmese amber.
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4810.3.7
Abstract: A new genus and species of scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) is described from a female specimen in mid-Cretaceous Burmese (Myanmar) amber. Fossil female scales are rare and the present species, described as Paleolepidotus macrocolus gen.… read more here.
Keywords: insect hemiptera; scale insect; mid cretaceous; coccomorpha ... See more keywords
Colletotrichum nymphaeae var. entomophilum var. nov. a natural enemy of the citrus scale insect, Praelongorthezia praelonga (Hemiptera: Ortheziidae)
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DOI: 10.1590/1678-992x-2018-0269
Abstract: The citrus scale insect Praelongorthezia praelonga (Douglas), a major pest of citrus and other economically important crops, has only two commonly documented natural enemies: an entomopathogenic strain of the fungus Colletotrichum nymphaeae (Pass.) Aa and… read more here.
Keywords: praelongorthezia praelonga; insect praelongorthezia; citrus scale; scale insect ... See more keywords
A New Species of the Mealybug Genus Mirococcus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) from the Cape Verde Islands, with New Records and an Updated Checklist of Scale Insect Species
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DOI: 10.3390/insects13110999
Abstract: Simple Summary In this study, a new mealybug species from the Cape Verde Islands, Mirococcus capeverdensis Łagowska and Hodgson sp. n., collected on Campylanthus glaber Benth. (Scrophulariaceae) is described and illustrated based on the adult… read more here.
Keywords: updated checklist; insect species; scale insect; verde islands ... See more keywords
Insight into the Systematics of Novel Entomopathogenic Fungi Associated with Armored Scale Insect, Kuwanaspis howardi (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in China
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DOI: 10.3390/jof7080628
Abstract: This study led to the discovery of three entomopathogenic fungi associated with Kuwanaspis howardi, a scale insect on Phyllostachys heteroclada (fishscale bamboo) and Pleioblastus amarus (bitter bamboo) in China. Two of these species belong to… read more here.
Keywords: fungi associated; kuwanaspis howardi; entomopathogenic fungi; scale insect ... See more keywords