Catalogue Query Results

Aspidiella sacchari (Cockerell)

NOMENCLATURE:

Aspidiotus sacchari Cockerell, 1893j: 255. Type data: JAMAICA: Kingston, on sugar-cane. Syntypes, female. Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA. Described: female.

Aspidiotus (Aspidiotus) sacchari; Cockerell, 1897i: 25. Change of combination.

Aspidiotus (Aspidiella) sacchari; Leonardi, 1898a: 72. Change of combination.

Aspidiella sacchari; MacGillivray, 1921: 405. Change of combination.

Targionia sacchari; Merrill & Chaffin, 1923: 253-254. Change of combination.

Targionia (Aspidiella) sacchari; Merrill, 1953: 81. Change of combination.

Aspidiella sacchari; Borchsenius, 1966: 244. Revived combination.

COMMON NAMES: sugar cane root scale [SchmutKlLu1957]; sugarcane scale [MillerDa2005]; sugarcane scale [Dekle1965c].



Foe: THYSANOPTERA Phlaeothripidae: Podothrips semiflavus Hood [PalmerMo1990].

Hosts: Araceae: Alocasia macrorhiza [WilliaWa1988]. Poaceae [GomezM1941, BesheaTiHo1973, WilliaWa1988], Andropogon citratus [Martor1976], Brachiaria mutica [WilliaWa1988], Brachiaria purpurescens [MatileEt2006], Coix lacryma [Houser1918], Cymbopogon martini [Matile1978], Cynodon dactylon [Takaha1941b, Mamet1943a, Mamet1949, Dekle1965c, Borchs1966], Eremochloa ophiuroides [Dekle1965c, BesheaTiHo1973], Gynerium sagittatum [Balach1959a], Ischaemum [WilliaWa1988], Panicum [Laing1929a], Panicum maximum [MatileEt2006], Panicum molle [Houser1918], Paspalum fimbriatum [MatileEt2006], Paspalum millegrana [Martor1976], Paspalum vaginatum [Mamet1941a], Pennisetum purpureum [Balach1959a], Saccharum [Dekle1965c], Saccharum officinarum [Cocker1893j, GomezM1941, Ferris1955c, WilliaWa1988], Sporobolus [Beards1966], Stenotaphrum [Mamet1957], Stenotaphrum dimidiatum [Mamet1943a, Mamet1949, Borchs1966], Stenotaphrum secundatum [Dekle1965c], Stenotaphrum subulatum [Mamet1941a, Borchs1966].

DISTRIBUTION: Afrotropical: Comoros [Matile1978]; Liberia [Nakaha1982]; Madagascar [Nakaha1982]; Mauritius [Mamet1941a, Mamet1949]; Nigeria [Nakaha1982]; Reunion [Mamet1957]; Rodriques Island [Nakaha1982]; Sierra Leone [Hargre1937]. Australasian: Cook Islands [WilliaWa1988]; Federated States of Micronesia [Takaha1936c, Takaha1941b]; Fiji [Nakaha1982]; Guam [Nakaha1982]; Marshall Islands [Beards1966]; Palau [Beards1966]; Papua New Guinea [WilliaWa1988]; Solomon Islands [WilliaWa1988]; Western Samoa [WilliaWa1988]. Nearctic: Mexico [Nakaha1982]; United States of America (Florida [MerrilCh1923, Ferris1938a, Dekle1965c, BesheaTiHo1973], Texas [McDani1968]). Neotropical: Bahamas [Nakaha1982]; Colombia [Balach1959a, Kondo2001]; Cuba [Houser1918]; Guadeloupe [Balach1957c, MatileEt2006]; Guyana [Nakaha1982]; Haiti [PerezG2008]; Jamaica [Cocker1893j, Laing1929a, Ferris1938a]; Martinique [Balach1957c, MatileEt2006]; Panama [Ferris1942, Ferris1955c]; Puerto Rico & Vieques Island (Puerto Rico [VanDin1913, Martor1976]); Saint Croix [Beatty1944]; U.S. Virgin Islands [Nakaha1983]. Oriental: China (Yunnan [Ferris1955c]); Indonesia [Nakaha1982]; Malaysia [Nakaha1982]; Pakistan [Nakaha1982]; Sri Lanka [Ferris1938a, Green1922].

BIOLOGY: Occurring on the stems and beneath the sheathing bases of the leaves (Ferris, 1938a).

GENERAL REMARKS: Description and illustration of adult female by Laing (1929a), Ferris (1938a), Balachowsky (1958b), Chou (1985, 1986), Williams & Watson (1988) and by Colon-Ferrer & Medina-Gaud (1998).

STRUCTURE: Scale of the female pale brown, circular, thin, flat, exuviae central; that of the male elongate, exuvia apical (Ferris, 1938a).

ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE AND CONTROL: This species is distributed in many sugarcane-growing areas of the world (see Distribution), and considered a pest of sugarcane (Schmutterer et al., 1957; Williams & Watson, 1988; Williams & Greathead, 1990).

KEYS: Williams & Watson 1988: 44 (female) [Tropical South Pacific]; Chou 1985: 254 (female) [China]; Beardsley 1966: 512 (female) [Federated States of Micronesia]; Ferris 1942: 30 (female) [North America].

CITATIONS: Balach1957c [host, distribution: 200]; Balach1958b [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 284,286-287]; Balach1959a [host, distribution: 362]; Ballou1912 [host, distribution, economic importance, control]; Beards1966 [host, distribution: 512]; BeardsDaHo1976 [economic importance: 106]; Beatty1944 [host, distribution: 114-172]; BenDovGe2003 [catalogue: 154-156]; Bodkin1913 [host, distribution: 29-32]; Borchs1966 [catalogue: 244]; Bourne1921 [host, distribution, economic importance]; Box1953 [host, distribution, biological control: 51]; Chou1985 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 254-255]; Chou1986 [taxonomy, illustration: 655]; Cocker1893j [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 255-256]; Cocker1896b [distribution: 334]; Cocker1897i [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 25]; Cocker1897l [host, distribution: 150]; ColonFMe1998 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 42-43]; DanzigPe1998 [catalogue: 186]; Dekle1965c [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 26]; Dekle1976 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution, economic importance: 38]; FDACSB1982 [host, distribution: 5-11]; Fernal1903b [catalogue: 278]; Ferris1937c [taxonomy, illustration: 50,61]; Ferris1938a [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 189]; Ferris1941e [taxonomy: 48]; Ferris1942 [taxonomy, host, distribution: 446:9;446:30]; Ferris1943a [taxonomy: 86]; Ferris1955c [taxonomy, host, distribution: 33]; GomezM1941 [host, distribution: 128]; Gowdey1921 [taxonomy, host, distribution: 30]; Green1922 [host, distribution: 463]; GruwelMoNo2007 [taxonomy, endosymbionts: 267-280]; Hargre1937 [host, distribution, economic importance: 505-520]; Houser1918 [host, distribution: 167]; Hutson1916 [host, distribution: 426]; Jayant1999 [host, distribution: 76]; Kondo2001 [taxonomy, host, distribution: 43]; Laing1929a [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 490-491]; Leonar1897 [taxonomy: 285]; Leonar1898a [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 72-73]; Lepesm1947 [host, distribution: 214]; Lindin1909c [taxonomy, host, distribution: 449]; MacGil1921 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 405]; Mamet1941a [host, distribution: 40]; Mamet1943a [catalogue: 156]; Mamet1949 [catalogue: 54]; Mamet1957 [host, distribution: 369,375]; Martor1976 [host, distribution: 13,192]; Matile1978 [host, distribution: 61]; MatileEt2006 [host, distribution: 168]; Maxwel1903 [taxonomy, host, distribution: 41]; McDani1968 [taxonomy, illustration, host, distribution: 216-217]; Merril1953 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 81]; Merril1953 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution]; MerrilCh1923 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution, economic importance: 253-254]; MillerDa1990 [host, distribution, economic importance: 300]; MillerDa2005 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution, economic importance: 65-67]; Moore1915 [host, distribution: 305-310]; MorseNo2006 [molecular biology, phylogeny: 338-349]; MoutiaMa1947 [distribution]; Nakaha1982 [host, distribution: 12]; Nakaha1983 [host, distribution: 9]; PalmerMo1990 [biological control: 67-76]; PerezG2008 [distribution: 214]; RiherdCh1952 [host, distribution, economic importance, control: 1-5]; Sassce1923 [host, distribution: 152-158]; SchmutKlLu1957 [host, distribution, economic importance: 494]; Takaha1931 [taxonomy, host, distribution: 5]; Takaha1936c [host, distribution: 118]; Takaha1939b [taxonomy: 272]; Takaha1940a [taxonomy: 332]; Takaha1941b [host, distribution: 220]; Tao1999 [taxonomy, host, distribution: 72]; VanDin1913 [host, distribution: 251-257]; Varshn2002 [host, distribution: 22]; WilliaGr1990 [host, distribution, economic importance, biological control: 563-578]; WilliaWa1988 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 46-47]; Wilson1921 [host, distribution: 20-34]; WoodruBeSk1998 [distribution].



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