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The Sugar-cane Scale, Aulacaspis tegalensis, Zehnt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

L. Andre Moutia
L. Andre Moutia
Affiliation:
Assistant Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, Mauritius.
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The sugar-cane scale, Aulacaspis tegalensis, Zehnt., has been known to exist in Mauritius since the year 1899, when de Charmoy recorded it for the first time in the Island.

The species was described by Zehntner in 1898 from Java on sugar-cane, since when little has been recorded of its geographical distribution. In 1921, Ferris recorded it from Formosa. In 1938, D. d'Emmerez de Charmoy, jr., called the attention of the planters of Reunion to the damage caused by this scale on sugarcane, and the author had suspected its presence there many years previously. In Java it was considered of minor importance by Zehntner in 1897. In 1911 Van Deventer drew attention to the damage it caused in Java, and in 1915 van der Goot recorded a serious infestation in the experimental cane fields of the Java Experimental Station. Apart from these records, it has not been reported from other sugar-cane growing countries.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , April 1944 , pp. 69 - 77
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1944

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