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Phenacoccus avenae Borchsenius (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) from the Netherlands and Turkey, intercepted at quarantine on bulbs, corms and rhizomes of ornamental plants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

D. J. Williams
Affiliation:
Commonwealth institute of Entomologyc/o British Museum (Natural History)Cromwell RoadLondonSW75 BDUK
Douglass R. Miller
Affiliation:
Sytematic Entomology LaboratoryIIBIIIAgricultural Research Service, US Department of AgricultureBeltsvilleMaryland 20705USA

Abstract

Phenacoccus avenae Borchsenius, a mealybug described originally from beneath the leaf sheaths of a grass in Armenia, USSR, has been intercepted at quarantine in the Netherlands. USA and England on bulbs, corms and rhizomes of ornamental plants from Turkey. The mealybug, however, has never been recorded from Turkey although it probably exists there on monocotyledons. It is redescribed and illustrated here to facilitate identification at quarantine stations, and a list is given of its host-plants in the families Gramineae, Amaryllidaceae, Iridaceae and Liliaceae.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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