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Prococcus acutissimus (Green)

NOMENCLATURE:

Lecanium acutissimum Green, 1896: 10. Type data: SRI LANKA: Paradeniya, on Areca catechu. Lectotype female, by subsequent designation Williams & Watson, 1990: 83. Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK. Described: female.

Coccus acutissimus; Fernald, 1903b: 168. Change of combination.

Prococcus acutissimus; Avasthi, 1993: 77. Change of combination.

COMMON NAMES: banana-shaped scale [HamonWi1984]; slender soft scale [GillNaWi1977].



HOSTS: Anacardiaceae: Anacardium occidentale [DeLott1957c], Mangifera [Ali1971], Mangifera indica [Green1904d, Ramakr1919a, Ramakr1930, Mamet1943a, Ali1971, GillNaWi1977], Mangifera indica [KinjoNaHi1996]. Annonaceae: Cananga odorata [WilliaWa1990]. Apocynaceae: Ochrosia [Beards1966], Plumeria [Nakaha1981a], Plumeria acutifolia [Mamet1943a, WilliaWi1988]. Aquifoliaceae: Ilex aquifolium [Nakaha1981a]. Arecaceae: Areca [Ramakr1919a, Ramakr1930], Areca catechu [Green1896a, Green1904d, NairMe1963, Ali1971], Areca triandra [Green1904d, Ali1971], Chrysalidocarpus lutescens [Mamet1943a, WilliaWi1988], Cocos nucifera [Green1896, Ramakr1919a, Mamet1943a, DeLott1957c, Ali1971, Nakaha1981a], Cocos nucifera [Green1904d], Paurotis wrightii [Ali1971]. Boraginaceae: Cordia alliodora [WilliaWa1990]. Clusiaceae: Calophyllum [GillNaWi1977], Clusia rosea [Mamet1943a, WilliaWi1988]. Cycadaceae: Cycas [Green1904d, Ali1971, Nakaha1981a], Cycas circinalis [Nakaha1981a], Cycas revoluta [Mamet1943a, GillNaWi1977]. Euphorbiaceae: Glochidion [Beards1966]. Fabaceae: Bauhinia [WilliaWi1988]. Flacourtiaceae: Hydnocarpus wightiana [Mamet1943a, WilliaWi1988]. Iridaceae: Gladiolus illyricus [Mamet1943a, WilliaWi1988]. Lauraceae: Licaria triandra [GillNaWi1977], Litsea zaylanica [Green1904d, Ali1971], Persea americana [Mamet1943a, WilliaWi1988]. Linaceae: Durandea [WilliaWa1990]. Lythraceae: Lagerstroemia indica [Mamet1943a, WilliaWi1988]. Magnoliaceae: Magnolia grandiflora [GillNaWi1977], Michelia [Ali1971], Michelia alba [TaoWoCh1983], Michelia longifolia [Ali1971]. Moraceae: Artocarpus [Ali1971], Artocarpus communis [Mamet1943a, WilliaWi1988], Artocarpus gomezianus [Takaha1952, Ali1971], Artocarpus heterophyllus [TaoWoCh1983], Artocarpus integrifolius [Mamet1943a, Ali1971, WilliaWi1988], Ficus tinctoria [WilliaWa1990]. Musaceae: Musa [Green1937], Musa paradisiaca [Green1904d, Ali1971]. Myrsinaceae: Ardisia [GillNaWi1977]. Myrtaceae: Eugenia jambos [Ali1971, TaoWoCh1983], Metrosideros [Nakaha1981a], Psidium guajava [WilliaWa1990]. Oleandraceae: Nephrolepis [Beards1966]. Orchidaceae: Sobralia macrantha [Mamet1943a, WilliaWi1988], Stanhopea [GillNaWi1977]. Piperaceae: Piper [Ramakr1919a, Ramakr1930, Green1937], Piper nigrum [Green1904d, Ali1971]. Rubiaceae: Canthium odorata [Nakaha1981a], Gardenia [Beards1966]. Sapindaceae: Euphoria longana [Mamet1943a, Ali1971, TaoWoCh1983], Litchi chinensis [Mamet1943a, Ali1971, GillNaWi1977, Nakaha1981a], Nephelium [Green1937], Nephelium lappaceum [WilliaWa1990], Nephelium litchi [Green1904d]. Sapotaceae: Palaquium formosanum [TaoWoCh1983]. Smilacaceae: Smilax [Nakaha1981a]. Verbenaceae: Premna [Beards1966]. Zingiberaceae: Hedychium [GillNaWi1977].

DISTRIBUTION: Afrotropical: Kenya [DeLott1957c]; Mauritius [Mamet1943a]. Australasian: French Polynesia; Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii); Northern Mariana Islands; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Western Samoa. Nearctic: United States of America (Florida, Texas). Neotropical: Haiti [PerezG2008]. Oriental: India [Ramakr1919a, Ramakr1930, Mamet1943a, Ali1971] (Kerala [NairMe1963], Tamil Nadu [AvasthSh1991]); Indonesia (Sumatra); Malaysia [Ali1971]; Ryukyu Islands (=Nansei Shoto) [KinjoNaHi1996]; Singapore [Ali1971]; Sri Lanka [Green1896, Green1904d, Green1937, Mamet1943a, Ali1971]; Taiwan [Mamet1943a, Ali1971, WongChCh1999]; Thailand [Ali1971]; Vietnam. Palaearctic: Japan.

BIOLOGY: Generally infests the underside of leaves, taking position alongside the leaf vein (Zimmerman, 1948, Gill et al., 1977).

GENERAL REMARKS: Good description and illustration of adult female by Zimmerman (1948), Gill et al. (1977), Tao et al. (1983), Hamon & Williams (1984), Williams & Watson (1990) and by Tang (1991).

STRUCTURE: Adult female elongate, pointed at anterior and posterior ends, slightly convex; colour of young female creamy-white, while older ones are brown to blackish brown (Gill et al., 1977). See colour photograph in Kawai (1980, Fig. 6.14), Hamon & Williams (1984), Wong et al. (1999)..

KEYS: Tang 1991: 76 (female) [China]; Williams & Watson 1990: 82 (female) [Tropical South Pacific]; Hamon & Williams 1984: 38 (female) [USA, Florida]; Tao et al. 1983: 63 (female) [Taiwan]; Kawai 1980: 141-142 (female) [Japan]; Zimmerman 1948: 293 (female) [Hawaii].

CITATIONS: Ali1971 [host, distribution: 21]; Avasth1993 [taxonomy: 77]; AvasthSh1991 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 330]; Beards1966 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 483]; BenDov1993 [catalogue: 65]; Cocker1896b [taxonomy: 332]; DeLott1957c [host, distribution: 296]; Fernal1903b [catalogue: 168]; GillNaWi1977 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution : 12-16]; Green1896 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 10]; Green1904d [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 218]; Green1937 [host, distribution: 302]; HamonWi1984 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 38-40]; Kawai1980 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 145]; KinjoNaHi1996 [host, distribution: 126]; KozarWa1985 [distribution: 76]; LePell1968 [host, distribution, economic importance]; Lindin1909c [taxonomy, host, distribution: 450]; Mamet1943a [host, distribution: 151]; Mamet1949 [taxonomy, distribution: 23]; Nair1964 [host, distribution, economic importance: 72]; NairMe1963 [host, distribution: 139]; Nakaha1981a [host, distribution: 390]; PerezG2008 [distribution: 212]; Ramakr1919a [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 37]; Ramakr1921a [host, distribution: 349]; Ramakr1930 [host, distribution: 48]; Su1982 [host, distribution: 61]; Takaha1928 [host, distribution: 341]; Takaha1929 [host, distribution: 53]; Takaha1942b [host, distribution: 17]; Takaha1952 [host, distribution: 15-16]; Takaha1955f [host, distribution: 239]; Tang1991 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 78-79]; Tao1978 [host, distribution: 79]; Tao1989 [host, distribution: 59]; Tao1999 [taxonomy, host, distribution: 53]; TaoWoCh1983 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 63-64]; UsmanPu1955 [host, distribution: 49]; Varshn1985a [taxonomy, host, distribution: 26]; Wester1918 [host, distribution, economic importance: 5-57]; Willia2001 [distribution: 225-227]; WilliaWa1990 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 83-85]; WilliaWi1988 [host, distribution: 56]; WongChCh1999 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 11,49]; Yang1982 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 169,191]; Zimmer1948 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 295-300].



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