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Identity of the African coffee root mealybug, with descriptions of two new species of Planococcus (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Gillian W. Watson  and
Jennifer M. Cox
Gillian W. Watson*
Affiliation:
CAB International Institute of Entomology, London, UK
Jennifer M. Cox
Affiliation:
Entomology Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
*
Dr G. W. Watson, CAB International Institute of Entomology, 56, Queen's Gate, London, SW7 5JR, UK.
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Abstract

Two new species of mealybug found on coffee roots are described from Africa. Planococcus fungicolasp. n. from Kenya is the species that has been known in Africa as the coffee root mealybug. This mealybug is almost always associated with the fungus, Diacanthodes novoguineensis (Hennings) Fidalgo. Planococcus radicumsp. n. is from Nigeria and Tanzania. Dactylopius coffeae Newstead is synonymized with Planococcus lilacinus (Cockerell) syn. n.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 80 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 99 - 105
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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