Phenacoccus parvus Morrison

Taxonomic position

Insecta: Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae

Common name

Lantana mealybug

Host plants

China aster, Callistephus chinensis, Chrysanthemum sp., Naga King chili, Capsicum chinense, C. annuum, Amaranthus sp., Lycopersicon esculentum, etc.

For more details, see Sridhar et al., 2012 and Firake et al., 2016.

Image

  Photo credit: Dr. Sunil Joshi, NBAIR

References

Firake DM, Behere GT, Sharma B, Fand BB, 2016. First report of the invasive mealybug, Phenacoccus parvu Morrison infesting Naga King chili and its colonization potential on major host plants in India. Phytoparasitica, 44(2):187-194.

Sridhar V, Sunil Joshi, Rani BJ, Rajiv Kumar, 2012. First record of lantana mealybug, Phenacoccus parvus Morrison (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), as a pest on China aster from South India. Journal of Horticultural Sciences, 7(1):108-109.

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