Species list of the scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) of Romania, with new data

Fetykó, K. and Kozár, F. and Daróczi, K. (2010) Species list of the scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) of Romania, with new data. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica, 45 (2). pp. 291-302. ISSN 0238-1249

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Abstract

The scale insect fauna of Romania is poorly known. Based on bibliographic sources and on collections made by the authors a complete checklist is presented. The number of scale insect species presented here from Romania is the following: 178 from outdoor and 29 species from indoor and greenhouse condition. The outdoor species belong to 9 families and 4 families for indoor species. The most numerous outdoor families were: Pseudococcidae (67 species), Coccidae (42 species), Diaspididae (37 species) and Eriococcidae (16 species). Most of the indoor species belong to: Diaspididae (20 species).The present paper contains data of 5 families and 28 species with collecting places, recording data.Three species were new for the scale insect fauna of the country: Spilococcus nanae Schmutterer, 1957, Spinococcus calluneti (Lindinger, 1912) and Rhizoecus albidus , Goux, 1936.

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