Aspidiotus Bouché, 1833

Mille, Christian, Henderson, Rosa C., Cazères, Sylvie & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Checklist of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) of New Caledonia, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 129-176 : 136

Genus Aspidiotus Bouché, 1833

Aspidiotus cochereaui

Matile-Ferrero & Balachowsky, 1973* ( Fig. 5A, B )

Aspidiotus cochereaui Matile-Ferrero & Balachowsky, 1973: 241 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Boulouparis County (Mont Do), on Dracophyllum spp., 13.IV.2006 ; Thio County (Mont Kouakoué), same host, 17.III.2008 ; both C. Mille coll., det. RCH, dep. NZAC, CXMNC .

PUBLISHED RECORDS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Matile-Ferrero & Balachowsky (1973).

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — This species is only known from humid forests in the Central Range of Grande Terre, Mont Do and Kouakoué.

HOST- PLANTS IN NEW CALEDONIA. — On Nothofagus codonandra ( Williams & Watson 1988a) and Dracophyllum spp.

Figures

FIG. 5. — A, B, colony and single specimen of Aspidiotus cochereaui Matile-Ferrero & Balachowsky, 1973, on Dracophyllum sp. (Ericaceae) in Mont Kouakoué; C, D, colony and detailed specimens of Choneochiton casuarinae Hodgson, Mille & Cazères, 2014, on Casuarina collina (Casuarinaceae) in Pocquereux (La Foa County); E, F, colony and lateral view specimen of Tessarobelus guerini Montrouzier, 1864, on the introduced Syzygium jambos (Myrtaceae) in Sarraméa County; G, H, colony and detailed specimens of Furcaspis cyphokentiae Williams & Miller,2006,on the palm Cyphokentia sp.(Arecaceae) in Mont Aoupinié (photographies S. Cazères, IAC). Scale bars: B, D, H, 1 mm; C, 2 mm; F, 10 mm; A, E, G, not to scale.