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Issue: Vol. 5507 No. 3: 13 Sept. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-09-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5507.3.8
Page range: 498-500
Abstract views: 209
PDF downloaded: 8

First record of the yellow cottony cushion scale, Icerya seychellarum (Westwood) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Monophlebidae) in Morocco

Laboratory of Entomology; Regional Center of Agricultural Research of Kenitra; National Institute of Agricultural Research; 14000 Kenitra; Morocco; Laboratory of Plant; Animal; and Agro-Industry Productions; Faculty of Sciences; University Ibn Toufail; Kenitra; Morocco
Department of Life Sciences; the Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road; London SW7 5BD; U.K.
Laboratory of Entomology; Regional Center of Agricultural Research of Kenitra; National Institute of Agricultural Research; 14000 Kenitra; Morocco; Laboratory of Plant; Animal; and Agro-Industry Productions; Faculty of Sciences; University Ibn Toufail; Kenitra; Morocco
Laboratory of Entomology; Regional Center of Agricultural Research of Kenitra; National Institute of Agricultural Research; 14000 Kenitra; Morocco
Laboratory of Entomology; Regional Center of Agricultural Research of Kenitra; National Institute of Agricultural Research; 14000 Kenitra; Morocco
Laboratory of Entomology; Regional Center of Agricultural Research of Kenitra; National Institute of Agricultural Research; 14000 Kenitra; Morocco
Hemiptera Coccomorpha Monophlebidae Morocco

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