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Scale Insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) on Myrciaria dubia (Myrtaceae) in Brazil

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Commercial cultivation of the fruit tree Myrciaria dubia (Myrtaceae) is being developed in Brazil but phytophagous insects, including scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), can become pests in plantations. The coccids Ceroplastes jamaicensis White, Coccus viridis (Green), Parasaissetia nigra (Nietner), Pseudokermes vitreus (Cockerell) (Coccidae), and the diaspidid Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis (Green) were collected on M. dubia in the municipality of Belém and Tomé-Açu, state of Pará (PA), metropolitan and Northeast Pará mesoregions, Brazil. A key to species of Coccoidea recorded on M. dubia, based on adult females, is provided. Photographs for all scale insects reported on M. dubia are provided. Ceroplastes jamaicensis is recorded for the first time for Brazil and is herein reported for the first time associated with this host.

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Many thanks to the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments which helped improved the manuscript. Many thanks to Dr. Danièle Matile-Ferrero and Dr. Antoine Mantilleri (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France) for their help in obtaining permission for the use of the photograph of Austratachardiella sexcordata.

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  1. Fundação Estadual de Pesquisa Agropecuária (FEPAGRO), Rua Gonçalves Dias, 570, Menino Deus, Porto Alegre, RS, 90130-060, Brasil

    V R S Wolff

  2. Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Corpoica), Centro de Investigación, Palmira, Colombia

    T Kondo

  3. Univ Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Fac de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil

    A L B G Peronti

  4. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, PA, Brasil

    A C S Noronha

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Wolff, V.R.S., Kondo, T., Peronti, A.L.B.G. et al. Scale Insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) on Myrciaria dubia (Myrtaceae) in Brazil. Neotrop Entomol 45, 274–279 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-016-0365-2

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