Scale Insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha, Coccomorpha) on host plants from family Ericaceae in Croatia

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  • Tatiana Masten Milek Croatian Centre for Agriculture
  • Mladen Simala Croatian Centre for Agriculture

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15162/0425-1016/455

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Coccomorpha, Coccidae, Diaspididae, Margarodidae, Pseudococcidae, Ericaceae, Croatia

Abstract

During ten years of faunistic research on scale insects in Croatia (2006-2015), ten Scale Insect (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) species from four families were found on eight host plants from family Ericaceae. Following species of scale insects were recorded: Coccidae: Coccushesperidum L., Saissetia oleae (Olivier); Diaspididae: Aspidiotus nerii Bouche, Chrysomphalus dictyospermi (Morgan), Diaspidiotus bavaricus (Lindinger); Margarodidae: Icerya purchasi (Maskell) and Pseudococcidae: Nipaecoccus delassusi (Balachowsky), Planococcus citri (Risso), Peliococcus calluneti (Lindinger) and Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni-Tozzetti). Following materials and methods were used in conducted research: visual inspections, collecting of plant material, storing and preservation of samples, analysis of samples under stereomicroscope, preparation of microscopic slides and identification of species. Specimens were slide mounted under the dissecting stereomicroscope and identified. The most frequently recorded species were C. hesperidum and N. delassusi, which were found on almost half of the samples of collected host plants form family Ericaceae.

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Tatiana Masten Milek, Croatian Centre for Agriculture

Food and Rural Affairs, Svetošimunska 25, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia

Mladen Simala, Croatian Centre for Agriculture

Food and Rural Affairs, Institute for plant protection, Gorice 68b, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

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2018-01-23

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