Open AccessA NEW SPECIES OF HELIOCOCCUS ŠULC FROM AUSTRALIA AND PAKISTAN AND A REDESCRIPTION OF HELIOCOCCUS GLACIALIS (NEWSTEAD) COMB.N. (HOMOPTERA: PSEUDOCOCCIDAE)
Author(s) -
Brookes Helen M.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1978.tb00151.x
Subject(s) - mealybug , paspalum , biology , homoptera , genus , botany , ecology , pest analysis
Heliococcus summervillei sp. n. is a mealybug that has caused considerable damage to pastures of Paspalum in Queensland and has been collected on sugar‐cane in Pakistan. This is the first record of the genus Heliococcus from Australia and Pakistan. Dactylopius glacialis Newstead, a related species infesting grass in Italy, is redescribed and transferred to Heliococcus.