Scale Insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of ornamental plants from São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

Authors

A. L. B. G. Peronti, Sao Paulo, Brazil
D. R. Miller, Agricultural Research Service, USDA
C. R. Sousa-Silva, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Date of this Version

December 2001

Comments

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/. Copyright © by Peronti, Miller, and Sousa-Silva.

Abstract

A list of 35 scale insects collected from 72 ornamental plant species in São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil is provided. Regarding host specificity, 30 scale insects were polyphagous, 4 oligophagous, and 1 monophagous. A total of 102 coccoid/plant associations are recorded, 29 of which are new host records for the species; 60 are new host records for the species in Brazil. Pulvinaria urbicola Cockerell, 1893 (Coccidae), Phenacoccus similis Granara de Willink, 1983 (Pseudococcidae), and Orthezia molinarii (Morrison, 1952) (Ortheziidae) are recorded for the first time in Brazil. In addition, we describe the injury caused by scale insects on ornamental plants.