Mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) species on economically important fruit crops in Sri Lanka

A review of the legged mealybugs on bamboo (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) occurring in China.

Twenty-two species of legged mealybugs occur on bamboo (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) in China. These species are reviewed and two of them are described for the first time: Dysmicoccus luoyangensis Li & Wu, sp. nov. and Trionymus indocalamus Li & Wu, sp. nov. Two new combinations are established: Pseudococcus bambusicola Takahashi and Kaicoccus bambusus Wu are transferred to genus Formicococcus Takaha...

DNA barcodes for two scale insect families, mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) and armored scales (Hemiptera: Diaspididae).

Although DNA barcode coverage has grown rapidly for many insect orders, there are some groups, such as scale insects, where sequence recovery has been difficult. However, using a recently developed primer set, we recovered barcode records from 373 specimens, providing coverage for 75 species from 31 genera in two families. Overall success was >90% for mealybugs and >80% for armored scale specie...

Global Establishment Risk of Economically Important Fruit Fly Species (Tephritidae)

The global invasion of Tephritidae (fruit flies) attracts a great deal of attention in the field of plant quarantine and invasion biology because of their economic importance. Predicting which one in hundreds of potential invasive fruit fly species is most likely to establish in a region presents a significant challenge, but can be facilitated using a self organising map (SOM), which is able to...

Evaluation of Buffalograss Leaf Pubescence and Its Effect on Resistance to Mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)

DNA markers to disentangle complexes of cryptic taxa in mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)

1 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR 1301, INRA/UNSA/CNRS, Sophia-Antipolis, France 2 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Expérimentale de Lutte Biologique, Sophia-Antipolis, France 3 LNPV Montpellier, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France 4 Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária de Minas Gerais, EPAMIG, Lavras, Brazil 5 Embrapa Uva e Vinho,...