Articles
Mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) on ornamental plants in eastern Mediterranean region, Turkey
Article number
1269_30
Pages
231 – 240
Language
English
Abstract
Insect pests have been spreading very fast in recent decades due to of the increase in trade of plant species.
Because scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) are often cryptic in habit they can escape detection during quarantine inspection of plants and became one of the most important invasive pest species all over the world.
In this study, Pseudococcidae samples were collected from ornamental woody plants and shrubs occurring in the parks and recreation areas in Adana, Mersin and Hatay between 2011 and 2017. Specimens were taken twice a week during the spring and summer seasons of the three-year study and a total of 356 samples were collected.
As a result, seven species belonging to three genera were determined as follows: Peliococcus salviae (Hadzibejli, 1963), Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813), Planococcus ficus (Signoret, 1875), Planococcus vovae (Nasonov, 1909), Phenacoccus madeirensis (Green, 1923), Phenacoccus solani (Ferris, 1918), Phenacoccus solenopsis (Tinsley, 1898).
Because scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) are often cryptic in habit they can escape detection during quarantine inspection of plants and became one of the most important invasive pest species all over the world.
In this study, Pseudococcidae samples were collected from ornamental woody plants and shrubs occurring in the parks and recreation areas in Adana, Mersin and Hatay between 2011 and 2017. Specimens were taken twice a week during the spring and summer seasons of the three-year study and a total of 356 samples were collected.
As a result, seven species belonging to three genera were determined as follows: Peliococcus salviae (Hadzibejli, 1963), Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813), Planococcus ficus (Signoret, 1875), Planococcus vovae (Nasonov, 1909), Phenacoccus madeirensis (Green, 1923), Phenacoccus solani (Ferris, 1918), Phenacoccus solenopsis (Tinsley, 1898).
Authors
A.F. Çalışkan-Keçe, B.T. Ulaşlı, M. Ulusoy
Keywords
scale insects, palaearctic region, invasive, Phenacoccus solenopsis, parks
Groups involved
- Division Temperate Tree Fruits
- Division Vine and Berry Fruits
- Division Tropical and Subtropical Fruit and Nuts
- Division Ornamental Plants
- Division Vegetables, Roots and Tubers
- Commission Banana
- Division Horticulture for Development
- Division Precision Horticulture and Engineering
- Division Plant Genetic Resources, Breeding and Biotechnology
- Division Plant-Environment Interactions in Field Systems
- Division Postharvest and Quality Assurance
- Division Greenhouse and Indoor Production Horticulture
- Division Landscape and Urban Horticulture
- Division Horticulture for Human Health
- Commission Cultivar Registration
- Division Temperate Tree Nuts
- Commission Agroecology and Organic Farming Systems
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