New Data on the Scale Insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) of Southern Lithuania, including Ten Species New for the Country

Autor:	Chris Malumphy, Daniel R. L. Pye, Henrikas Ostrauskas
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Scale insect biology Fauna Botany Species distribution Species diversity Animal Science and Zoology Forestry Species richness biology.organism_classification Diaspidiotus Peliococcus Hemiptera
Zdroj:	Acta Zoologica Lituanica. 20:253-263
ISSN:	1648-6919 1392-1657
DOI:	10.2478/v10043-010-0025-4
Popis:	The results of an investigation of scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) in Alytus, Kaunas and Marijampolė counties of southern Lithuania by the first two authors during a week in August 2009 are presented. Two further samples from Klaipėda and four samples from Vilnius counties are also included. Twenty-eight species of scale insect are recorded, of which ten are new for Lithuania: Diaspidiotus Bavaricus (Lindinger), D. ostreaeformis (Curtis), Eriococcus baldonensis (Rasiņa), E. inermis Green, Eriopeltis stammeri Schmutterer, Mirococcopsis subterraneus (Newstead), Orthezia urticae (Linnaeus), Peliococcus ‘chersonensis group’, Phyllostroma myrtilli (Kaltenbach) and Puto pilosellae (Sulc). The highest number of species (twenty-seven) was found in Alytus county, representing 73% of the native coccoid fauna. This may be due at least in part to it being the most southern and the most forested county with large areas under protection. Twelve species were recorded from Kaunas, seven from Marijampolė, one from Kl...
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