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Issue: Vol. 3905 No. 3: 13 Jan. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-01-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.3.11
Page range: 447–450
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 6

First records of the mealybug Rastrococcus invadens Williams (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in French Guiana and the Americas

Anses, Laboratoire de la Santé des Végétaux. CBGP. CS 30016. 755 avenue du Campus d’Agropolis. FR-34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez.
Direction de l'Alimentation, de l'Agriculture et de la Forêt de Guyane, Service de l'Alimentation, Parc Rebard- BP 5002 – 97305 Cayenne, Guyane Française.
Direction de l'Alimentation, de l'Agriculture et de la Forêt de Guyane, Service de l'Alimentation, Parc Rebard- BP 5002 – 97305 Cayenne, Guyane Française.
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P. (INIAV). Av. Da República, Quinta do Marquês 2780-159, Oeiras, Portugal.
Hemiptera Pseudococcidae

Abstract

At the end of August 2014, a visitor to the French National Plant Protection service (NPPO) in Cayenne (French Guiana) brought in mango twigs covered with a significant amount of sooty mould. From these branches, the NPPO officers took large numbers of mealybugs from the underside of the leaves (Fig. 1). The sample was sent to the Plant Health Laboratory (LSV) in Montpellier where it was identified as Rastrococcus invadens Williams. This is the first record of this species in French Guiana and in the Americas.