Asterolecanium
Asterolecanium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
Family: | Asterolecaniidae |
Genus: | Asterolecanium Targioni-tozzetti, 1868 |
Species[1] | |
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Asterolecanium is a genus of pit scale insects.[2] Asterolecanium is distributed worldwide: species have been found in each of the six biogeographic realms, and nearly all of their respective subregions.[3]
Many species of Asterolecanium are destructive to crops and other plants of economic importance such as bamboo and oak, and are therefore considered pests.[4] Asterolecanium species have been found on at least 37 plant families, most prominently Gramineae (grasses), Palmae (palm trees), and Fagaceae (beech trees).[3] Some species prefer a single host, while others feed on multiple host species. Some feed only on a single part of a plant, such as leaves or stems, while others infest the whole plant. Some create pits in their hosts, depending on the susceptibility of the host plant to damage.[3]
Species[]
- Russell
- Morrison & Morrison
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Brain
- Russell
- Ruebsaamen
- Brain
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Asterolecanium coffeae Newstead, 1911[5]
- Saraiva, 1936
- Brain
- Takahashi, 1908
- Green
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- (Bouché, 1844)
- Russell
- Fuller
- Green
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Marchal
- Green
- Fuller
- Green
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Cockerell, 1900
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell, 1941
- Russell
- (Boisduval, 1869)
- Russell
- Russell
- Takahashi, 1930
- Russell
- Lambdin
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Takahashi, 1933
- Green, 1922
- Russell, 1941
- Russell
- (Cockerell, 1892)
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Rübsaamen, 1902
- Green, 1908
- Green
- Russell
- Hempel
- Russell
- Russell, 1941
- Saraiva, 1936
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Green
- Cockerell
- Morrison & Morrison
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
- Cockerell
- Russell
- (Cockerell)
- Russell
- Russell
- Russell
References[]
- ^ Asterolecanium Targioni-tozzetti, 1868 in GBIF Secretariat (2017). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/2089594 on 2018-07-10.
- ^ Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada;Government of. "Record Details - Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (CBIF)". Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ^ a b c Russell, Louise May (1941). A classification of the scale insect genus Asterolecanium. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. p. 4.
- ^ Russell 1941, p. 3.
- ^ Newstead, R. (1911). "On a collection of Coccidae and Aleurodidae, chiefly African, in the collection of the Berlin Zoological Museum". Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 5 (2): 155–174. doi:10.1002/mmnz.4830050201.
- Agricultural pest insects
- Insects of Africa
- Asterolecaniidae
- Sternorrhyncha genera