Spilococcus mamillariae (Bouche)

Pacheco Da Silva, Vitor C., Kaydan, Mehmet Bora & Basso, Cesar, 2020, Pseudococcidae (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) in Uruguay: morphological identification and molecular characterization, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 4894 (4), pp. 501-520 : 517

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4894.4.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EEC841C8-6550-4B44-B688-C020DED10671
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4334883
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038BF22B-B45C-FF93-FF0E-D760FD42FCA1
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Spilococcus mamillariae (Bouche)
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Material studied. URUGUAY: Montevideo, ex stalk of Mammillaria sp. ( Cactaceae ), 34°53’19.6”S 56°07’12.7”W, 3.xi.2018, coll. Pacheco da Silva, V.C., 6 adult ♀♀, ECFA No. 158 GoogleMaps .

Hosts. Polyphagous, reported from 95 species belonging to 6 plant families, but mainly associated with Cactaceae , in which it is recorded on 89 species ( García Morales et al. 2016).

Distribution. Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical and Palaearctic regions ( García Morales et al. 2016). This is the first record of S. mamillariae on Uruguay.