Valid Names Results
Pseudocribrolecanium andersoni (Newstead, 1917) (Coccidae: Pseudocribrolecanium)Nomenclatural History
- Akermes andersoni Newstead 1917: 347. Type data: KENYA: Kabete, on orange leaves.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Kondo2006,2). Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
- Cribrolecanium andersoni (Newstead, 1917); De Lotto 1968a: 83. change of combination
- Parakermes andersoni (Newstead, 1917); Fonseca 1973: 247. change of combination
- Pseudocribrolecanium andersoni (Newstead, 1917); Kondo 2006: 2. change of combination Notes: Lectotype designated in Kondo (2006) from the syntypes of this species as follows: “Lecanium andersoni”, Kenya (as British East Africa), 1(1): collecting date not given (according to the Type description, the date should be i.1914), coll. T.J. Anderson, ex orange, No. 18, 14/252, labeled cotype, B.M. 1945, 121 (BMNH).
Common Names
- The white powdery scale Kondo2006
- escama blanda polvorienta de Anderson Watson2022a
- witpoeieragtigedopluis Watson2022a
- escama de pó branco Watson2022a
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 15 | Genera: 17
- Anacardiaceae
- Mangifera indica | Almeid1973b Kondo2006
- Araliaceae
- Schefflera | Kondo2006
- Boraginaceae
- Ehretia cymosa | DeLott1965a Kondo2006 | ssp. silvatica)
- Gentianaceae
- Anthocleista grandiflora | Kondo2006
- Lauraceae
- Persea americana | Kondo2006
- Loganiaceae
- Strychnos madagascariensis | Kondo2006
- Malvaceae
- Theobroma cacao | Kondo2006 MatileNo1984
- Meliaceae
- Toona ciliata | Hodgso1969a Kondo2006
- Moraceae
- Ficus benjamina | Kondo2006
- Ficus elastica | Almeid1973b Kondo2006
- Ficus lutea | DeLott1965a Kondo2006 | (= Ficus verrucocarpa)
- Ficus sur | Kondo2006
- Myrtaceae
- Callistemon | DeLott1965a Kondo2006
- Psidium guajava | Almeid1973b Kondo2006
- Passifloraceae
- Passiflora edulis | Almeid1969 Almeid1973b DeLott1965a DeLott1968a Hodgso1969a
- Rubiaceae
- Coffea canephora | Kondo2006
- Psychotria zombamontana | Hodgso1969a Kondo2006
- Rutaceae
- Citrus | BrinkHe1991 DeLott1965a Hodgso1969a Newste1917a
- Citrus maxima | Hall1937 | (= Citrus nobilis)
- Citrus nobilis | Hall1937
- Citrus paradisi | Hall1937
- Citrus reticulata | Kondo2006
- Citrus sinensis | Newste1917
- Sapindaceae
- Litchi chinensis | GroveScDe2014
- Strelitziaceae
- Strelitzia nicolai | Kondo2006
Foes:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Aphelinidae
- Coccophagus philippiae | Brink1996 | (= Euxanthellus philippiae)
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 12
- Angola | Almeid1969 Almeid1973b DeLott1968a
- Cameroon | BenDov1993
- China | PingZe2001
- Ghana | Kondo2006
- Kenya | DeLott1965a Kondo2006 Newste1917
- Mauritius | Mamet1943a
- Mozambique | Hodgso1969a
- South Africa | DeLott1965a GroveScDe2014
- Swaziland (=Eswatini) | BenDov1993
- Tanzania | Kondo2006
- Zambia | Hodgso1969a Kondo2006
- Zimbabwe | DeLott1965a Hall1937 Hodgso1969a Mamet1943a
Keys
Remarks
- Systematics: Pseudocribrolecanium andersoni can be confused with P. colae (Green & Laing, 1924) both in the field and when mounted on slides. In the field, P. andersoni has body oval to slightly asymmetrical, with head rounded (in P. colae, body highly asymmetrical, with head tapering). The slide-mounted adult female P. andersoni has (P. colae condition in parentheses): 10–22 dorsal cribriform plates of 2 distinct sizes, present in 2 or 3 irregular rows in submargin (0–9 cribriform plates small and unequal in size, in a single irregular, submarginal row, or absent). Crawler with head rounded (head tapered); median stigmatic setae bluntly spinose with rounded apex (median stigmatic setae clavate, with swollen apex). (Watson, 2022a)
- Structure: Adult females secrete fine white powdery wax over the cuticle and nearby surfaces; infested leaves get covered uniformly with white powder interspersed with grey patches of sooty mould. Beneath the powder, adult female flat, irregularly oval, 2.2–4.2 mm long, reddish brown. Eggs yellow, subcylindrical with rounded ends, found beneath body of adult female. (Watson, 2022a)
- Biology: Brink & Hewitt (1991) discussed the effect of various mortality factors on population of the pest in South Africa. Brink & Hewitt (1992) studied the relationship between this soft scale and sooty mould, and effect of the latter on photosynthetic rates of
- Economic Importance: A citrus pest in some citrus-producing areas of South Africa and Swaziland (Brink & Bruwer, 1989; Brink & Hewitt, 1991).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by De Lotto (1965a) and by Kondo (2006). Description and illustration of first instar nymph by Kondo (2006).
Illustrations
Citations
- Almeid1969: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 135-136
- Almeid1973b: distribution, host, 4
- BenDov1993: catalog, 94-95
- Bigger1993: distribution, host, life history, 153-169
- Brink1996: biological control, distribution, economic importance, host, 556-559
- BrinkBr1989: biological control, distribution, economic importance, host, life history, taxonomy, 9,25
- BrinkHe1991: life history, 9
- BrinkHe1992: biological control, distribution, host, life history, 413-417
- CamachCh2015: host, 7
- DeLott1965a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 178-180
- DeLott1968a: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 83
- GillKo1997: distribution, economic importance, host, 161-163
- Grove2001: biological control, chemical control, distribution, economic importance, host, life history, 216-221
- GroveScDe2014: distribution, host, 413
- Hall1937: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 122-123
- Hodgso1969a: distribution, host, 10
- Kondo2006: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 1-16
- Kondo2013: distribution, host, 46
- KondoWa2022a: distribution, host, list, 11
- Lindin1957: taxonomy, 544
- Mamet1943a: distribution, host, 150
- Mamet1949: catalog, 21-22
- MatileNo1984: distribution, host, 62
- Newste1917: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 347-348
- PingZe2001: chemical control, distribution, economic importance, host, 27
- Watson2021: distribution, 521
- Watson2022a: catalog, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 310-312
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 207
- WilliaWi1988: distribution, host, 57
