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Three new Coccids (Hemipt.: Coccoidea) attacking Coffee in East Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

G. De Lotto
G. De Lotto
Affiliation:
Department of Agricululture, Kenya.
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Australian workers have been interested for some time in the common Ceroplastes on coffee in Kenya as a source from which parasites of Ceroplastes destructor Newst. might be obtained.

The doubt that more than one white waxy scale occurs on coffee in East Africa led to an examination of material of C. destructor and certain other allied species. It was found that C. destructor was present in Uganda and Kenya but did not occur on coffee in Kenya, so far as is known at present. C. brevicauda Hall, here raised to specific rank, was found to occur on coffee in Uganda and a new species, C. luteolus, on the same crop in Kenya.

Descriptions of C. luteolus, Lecaniodiaspis erratica and Pseudococcus latipes, spp. n., all from coffee, are given.

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Original Articles
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , August 1955 , pp. 267 - 273
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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