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Genus of true bugs

Asterolecanium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Family: Asterolecaniidae
Genus: Asterolecanium
Targioni-tozzetti, 1868
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Asterolecanium is a genus of pit scale insects. Asterolecanium is distributed worldwide: species have been found in each of the six biogeographic realms, and nearly all of their respective subregions.

Many species of Asterolecanium are destructive to crops and other plants of economic importance such as bamboo and oak, and are therefore considered pests. Asterolecanium species have been found on at least 37 plant families, most prominently Gramineae (grasses), Palmae (palm trees), and Fagaceae (beech trees). Some species prefer a single host, while others feed on multiple host species. Some feed only on a single part of a plant, such as leaves or stems, while others infest the whole plant. Some create pits in their hosts, depending on the susceptibility of the host plant to damage.

Species

References

  1. Asterolecanium Targioni-tozzetti, 1868 in GBIF Secretariat (2017). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/2089594 on 2018-07-10.
  2. Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada;Government of. "Record Details - Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (CBIF)". Retrieved 2017-03-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Russell, Louise May (1941). A classification of the scale insect genus Asterolecanium. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. p. 4.
  4. Russell 1941, p. 3.
  5. Newstead, R. (1911). "On a collection of Coccidae and Aleurodidae, chiefly African, in the collection of the Berlin Zoological Museum". Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 5 (2): 155–174. doi:10.1002/mmnz.4830050201.
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Asterolecanium
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