Host Plant List of the Scale Insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) in South Korea

Authors

Soo-Jung Suh, Animal and Plant Quarantine AgencyFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-27-2020

Citation

Insecta Mundi (2020) 0757: 1–26

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Comments

Published in 2020 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Copyright 2020, the author. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY)

Abstract

The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) are one of the most successful groups of plant-feeding arthropods. Most species of shade trees, fruit trees and ornamental shrubs are subject to scale insect attacks. Based on the review of the literature and survey results, the host plant list of the scale insects in South Korea was developed and updated. Herein, an updated list of 253 species of host plants in 71 families associated with scale insects is provided and 162 species in 15 scale insect families are listed.