EPPO Bulletin (2021) 51, 639-647
Isaac Macharia, Pamela Kibwage, Helen M. Heya, Fredrick Makathima, Dorothy Olubayo, Mary Guantai, Wanja Kinuthia, David Ouvrard and Gillian W. Watson (2021)
New records of scale insects and mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) in Kenya
EPPO Bulletin 51 (3), 639-647
Abstract: Seventeen scale insect and mealybug species (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) are recorded from Kenya for the first time. Specimens were collected during surveys in 2017-2020 and the new records comprised Coccidae: the species group of Ceroplastes rusci (L.) and Protopulvinaria pyriformis (Cockerell); Diaspididae: Africonidia mkuzensis Ben-Dov, Aonidiella rex Balachowsky, Aspidiella sacchari (Cockerell), Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi, Cryptoparlatoreopsis ?meccae Hall, Fiorinia fioriniae (Targioni Tozzetti), Lepidosaphes tokionis (Kuwana), Oceanaspidiotus spinosus (Comstock), Parlatoria proteus (Curtis), Pinnaspis aspidistrae (Signoret) and Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni Tozzetti); and Pseudococcidae: Chaetococcus bambusae (Maskell), Phenacoccus parvus Morrison, Phenacoccus madeirensis Green and Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley. Information is also provided on the Diaspididae: Parlatoria pergandii Comstock and Parlatoria ziziphi (Lucas) following the first report of these 2 species published earlier this year. Some of the above species were damaging crops.
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Database assignments for author(s): Gillian W. Watson
Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution
