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- Title
SAP-SUCKING INSECT RECORDS (HEMIPTERA: STERNORRHYNCHA AND THYSANOPTERA: THRIPIDAE) FROM INDONESIA.
- Authors
WATSON, GILLIAN W.; MUNIAPPAN, RANGASWAMY; MERLE SHEPARD, B.; SEMBEL, DANTJE T.; RAUF, AUNU; CARNER, GERALD R.; BENSON, ERIC P.
- Abstract
Sap-sucking insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha and Thysanoptera: Thripidae) collected in Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi were identified. From 28 samples collected on 9 crop and ornamental host-plant species, 21 species of sap-sucking insects were identified, 12 (57%) of which were new island distribution records. This suggests that the Indonesian insect fauna has not been documented for a long time. The new distribution records are: from Java, Lepidosaphes gloverii (Packard) (Diaspididae); from Sumatra, Clavaspidiotus apicalis Takagi (Diaspididae); and from Sulawesi, Coccus hesperidum L. (Coccidae), Saissetia coffeae (Walker) (Coccidae), Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi (Diaspididae), Hemiberlesia palmae (Cockerell) (Diaspididae), Lepidosaphes tokionis (Kuwana) (Diaspididae), Microparlatoria fici (Takahashi) (Diaspididae), Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli (Cooley) (Diaspididae), Icerya aegyptiaca (Douglas) (Monophlebidae), I. pulchra (Leonardi) (Monophlebidae) and Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Giard) (Thripidae). Clavaspidiotus apicalis could become a potentially invasive pest of citrus.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; INSECTS; ZOOGEOGRAPHY; LEPIDOSAPHES gloverii; COCCUS hesperidum; HEMISPHERICAL scale
- Publication
Florida Entomologist (Florida Entomological Society), 2014, Vol 97, Issue 4, p1594
- ISSN
0015-4040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1653/024.097.0432