Pulvinaria floccifera

(Westwood, 1870)

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Common name (English)

Cottony camellia scale

Ηabitat

X22 Non-domestic gardens (small)

X23 Non-domestic gardens (large)

X24 Domestic gardens (urban)

Global distribution

Canary Islands, Seychelles, Saudi Arabia, Sardinia, Russia, Romania, Poland, Netherlands, South Africa, United States of America, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Australia, Mexico, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Canada, Malta, Bermuda, China, Argentina, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Japan, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Madeira Islands, Germany 16497 0

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Establishment status

Established

Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year

2017

Impacts

Negative

Leucophyllum sp., Thevetia peruviana [...] It has very heavy population on ornamental plants gardens in Nicosia. It excretes very big amount of honeydew. The host plants are covered honeydew and sooty mold (Fig. 1a). female lays eggs in an ovisac located behind its body (Ülgentürk and Şişman Hocaali 2019).

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, Şişman Hocaali S (2019) Pest status of Dactylopius opuntiae (Cockerell) (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae) and new records of scale insects from Northern Turkish Republic of Cyprus. Munis Entomology & Zoology 14(1): 294–300.