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Issue: Vol. 4460 No. 1: 17 Aug. 2018
Type: Monograph
Published: 2018-08-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4460.1.1
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Review of the family Coccidae (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) in Laos

Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Republic of Korea Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Republic of Korea
Plant Protection Center, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vientiane, Lao PDR
Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Republic of Korea Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Republic of Korea
Department of Plant Medicine, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Republic of Korea
Hemiptera scale insect soft scale insect new country records taxonomy

Abstract

The family Coccidae Fallén, 1814 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha), known as soft scale insects, is represented in Laos by 26 species. This includes 15 new country records: Ceroplastes cirripediformis (Comstock, 1881), C. floridensis Comstock, 1881, Coccus capparidis (Green, 1904), C. celatus De Lotto, 1960, C. formicarii (Green, 1896), C. gymnospori (Green, 1908), C. latioperculatum (Green, 1922), Drepanococcus cajani (Maskell, 1891), Eucalymnatus tessellatus (Signoret, 1873), Megapulvinaria maxima (Green, 1904), Paralecanium expansum (Green, 1896), Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood, 1870), P. psidii Maskell, 1893, Saissetia miranda (Cockerell & Parrott in Cockerell, 1899), and S. oleae (Olivier, 1791). An identification key to adult females of all the soft scale species known from Laos is provided, together with diagnoses, photographs and host information. The economic importance of each species is also discussed.

 

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