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Published: 2022-10-10
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First record of Protopulvinaria pyriformis (Cockerell) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) in Algeria

Plant Protection Laboratory, Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences, Department of Agronomy, Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University of Mostaganem, Algeria.
Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, South Kensington, London, U.K.
Hemiptera Coccomorpha Coccidae

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