Icerya purchasi

Icerya purchasi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coccoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Paraneoptera Superordo: Condylognatha Ordo: Hemiptera Subordo: Sternorrhyncha Superfamilia: Coccoidea

Familia: Monophlebidae
Genus: Icerya
Species: Icerya purchasi

Name

• Icerya purchasi Maskell, 1879

Type data

• Lectotype, designated by Morales (1991: 56): NZAC
  • Type kind: female
  • Type locality: Auckland, New Zealand AK [not Australia, as stated in error by Morales (1991: 56)]
  • Type host: Acacia ornata
  • Paralectotypes (6 slides): CMNZ, NZAC

References

Primary references

• Maskell, W.M. 1879: On some Coccidae in New Zealand. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 11(2): 187–228, plates V-VIII. BHL Reference page.  p. 221 BHL

Additional references

• Morales, C.F. 1991. Margarodidae (Insecta: Hemiptera). Fauna of New Zealand 21. Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand. 123 pp. PDFReference page.  p. 56.

References

• Berry, J.A. 1990. Two parasitoid complexes: Hierodoris atychioides (Butler) (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) and Icerya purchasi Maskell (Homoptera: Margarodidae). New Zealand Entomologist 13: 60–62. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.1990.9722594 . Reference page. 
• Hale, L.D. 1970: Biology of Icerya purchasi and its natural enemies in Hawaii. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 20(3): 533–550.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Australische Wollschildlaus
English: cottony cushion scale