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Parasaissetia nigra

(Nietner, 1861)
Arthropoda » Hemiptera » Coccidae » Parasaissetia nigra
Common name (English)
Nigra scale

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Establishment status
Established
Establishment status detail

Alien:

Impacts
Negative

We detected different biological stages and moderate densities of populations of P. nigra only on Ficus sycomorus (Moraceae) in Magusa (Ülgentürk et al. 2015).

Pathway
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Contaminant on plants (except parasites) – Con Plant
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Contaminant nursery material – CNM
Pathway detail

Speculated (Demetriou pers. comm.)

References

Ülgentürk S, Kaydan MB,  Şişman Hocal¡ S (2015) New scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) records for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Türkiye Entomoloji Bülteni 5(2): 59–68. https://doi.org/10.16969/teb.16125

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