CEROPLASTES SINENSIS DEL GUERCIO (HOMOPTERA: COCCIDAE), A WAX SCALE NEW TO AUSTRALIA

A facultative association between Plebeia droryana (Friese, 1900) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) and a wax scale insect, Ceroplastes janeirensis (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae).

Ants and bees (Hymenoptera) are frequently associated with scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) and other Sternorrhyncha in a mutualistic relationship. Associations with ants are best known, and they tend to clean, protect and even transport these insects in exchange for honeydew (Way, 1963). Studies between coccoids and bees are less common, although in some regions of Europe the associations ...

A new genus and species of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) from South America feeding on Ceroplastes wax scales (Hemiptera: Coccidae), and status of the genus Ortalidina as a chamaemyiid

A new genus and species of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) is described and illustrated, namely Chamaeleucopis, gen. nov. (type species Chamaeleucopis trevas, sp. nov.), a predator of Ceroplastes wax scales on guava from Brazil. In addition, the previously unrecognized genus Ortalidina Blanchard 1852 (type species Ortalidina cellularis Blanchard 1852), mainly from the Neotropics, is recog...

زنبورهای پارازیتویید و هیپرپارازیتویید مرتبط با شپشک مومی Ceroplastes sinensis Guer (Hem.: Coccidae) در استان مازندران

A new species of eurytoma illiger (hymenoptera: eurytomidae) parasitic on eulecanium rugulosum arch.(homoptera: coccidae) from iran

A new genus and two new species of soft scale insect (Sternorrhyncha, Coccoidea, Coccidae) from Africa

A new soft scale insect genus, Sterculicoccus Hodgson, gen. n., is introduced to take a new species, Sterculicoccus tafoensis Hodgson, sp. n., off Triplochiton from Ghana. Sterculicoccus belongs to the Myzolecaniinae and is close to Alecanium Morrison. In addition, a new species of Hemilecanium Newstead, H. cedrelus Hodgson, sp. n., is also described off Cedrela toona from Zambia. Hemilecanium ...