Valid Names Results

Pulvinaria platensis Brethes in Massini & Brethes, 1918 (Coccidae: Pulvinaria)

Nomenclatural History

• Pulvinaria platensis Brethes in Massini & Brethes 1918: 149. Type data: ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, on Eugenia sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Hamburg: Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universitat von Hamburg, Germany; La Plata: Museo de la Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Division Entomologia, Argentina; accepted valid name

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Granar1999: pp.144 ( Adult (F) ) [Argentina]

Remarks

• Biology: This species appears to be restricted to orchids.

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