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Issue: Vol. 2451 No. 1: 11 May. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-05-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2451.1.3
Page range: 43–52
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 35

Scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea) of the Krakatau Islands including species from adjacent Java

Deparment of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Rm. 137, Bldg. 005, BARC-W, Beltsville, MD 20705, U.S.A.
Hemiptera Krakatau introduced species Aulacaspis thorntoni sp. n. Greeniella calophylli sp. n. key to Greeniella

Abstract

In this paper we provide a list of all species of scale insects that have been collected in the Krakatau Islands since the catastrophic eruption of 1883. Included in the list are species collected during the La Trobe University Expedition in 1984 from the islands and from the adjacent mainland in Java and also species collected in earlier expeditions, including those during 1919–1933, discussed by Dammerman (1948). In addition, we describe two new species of armoured scales, Aulacaspis thorntoni Williams & Miller and Greeniella calophylli Williams & Miller and provide a key to the species of Greeniella Cockerell.

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