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Parasaissetia nigra

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

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Habitat detail

Unknown

Establishment status
Unknown
Establishment status detail

Alien: Casual

First detection year
2013
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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University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
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