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Pseudococcus elisae Borchsenius

NOMENCLATURE:

Pseudococcus elisae Borchsenius, 1947b: 2110. Type data: COLOMBIA: intercepted in Russia, Leningrad, on banana spurs. Lectotype female, by subsequent designation Gimpel & Miller, 1996: 51. Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. Described: female.

COMMON NAME: banana mealybug [GimpelMi1996].



HOSTS: Annonaceae: Annona squamosa [GimpelMi1996]. Araceae: Aglaonema [GimpelMi1996], Dieffenbchia [GimpelMi1996]. Musaceae: Musa [Borchs1947b, GimpelMi1996], Musa paradisiaca [BenDov1994], Musa sapientum [GimpelMi1996]. Rubiaceae: Coffea arabica [GimpelMi1996], Coffea canephora [CulikMaGu2006], Ixora [WilliaWa1988a, BenDov1994]. Rutaceae: Citrus aurantifolia [BenDov1994, GimpelMi1996].

DISTRIBUTION: Neotropical: Brazil (Espirito Santo [CulikMaGu2006]); Colombia [Borchs1947b, Borchs1948d, BenDov1994, GimpelMi1996, Kondo2001]; Costa Rica [GimpelMi1996]; Ecuador [GimpelMi1996]; Guatemala [GimpelMi1996]; Honduras [GimpelMi1996]; Panama [GimpelMi1996].

GENERAL REMARKS: Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Gimpel & Miller (1996). Good description of third instar female given by Gimpel & Miller (1996). Gimpel & Miller (1996) have shown that P. elisae has been misidentified or confused with P. jackbeardsleyi in several pre-1996 publications. Therefore, the descriptions and illustrations of the adult female - under the name P. elisae - by Beardsley (1986a), Williams & Watson (1988a), Williams & Granara de Willink (1992) and by Lit & Calilung (1994) pertain to Pseudococcus jackbeardsleyi. Caution should be exercised when using the citations given below, since many pretain mostly to P. jackbeardsleyi and only partly to P. elisae.

SYSTEMATICS: Borchsenius (1948d) again referred to this species as sp. n., however, Borchsenius' (1947b) description satisfies Article 13 of the International Code, therefore the species should be dated 1947.

ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE AND CONTROL: A common, polyphagous mealybug in the Neotropical region attacking many cultivated plants.

KEYS: Gimpel & Miller 1996: 19 (female) [World]; Gimpel & Miller 1996: 137 (larva) [World]; Williams & Granara de Willink 1992: 427 (female) [Central and South America]; Borchsenius 1947b: 2110 (female) [P. comstocki group of species].

CITATIONS: Beards1986a [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 31-34]; BenDov1994 [catalogue: 389]; Borchs1947b [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 2110]; CulikMaGu2006 [host, distribution: 1-12]; GimpelMi1996 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 49-53, 137-139]; Kondo2001 [taxonomy, host, distribution: 37]; LitCa1994 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 258-259, 264]; LitCaVi1990 [host, distribution: 707]; SagarrViSt2001a [biological control: 112-116]; WilliaGr1992 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 440-443]; WilliaWa1988a [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 181-183].



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