Ceroplastes floridensis
Puerto Rico & Vieques Island, Mauritius, Panama, Oman, Nicaragua, Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands, Mexico, Madeira Islands, Libya, Madagascar, Palau, Reunion, Montserrat, Ryukyu Islands (=Nansei Shoto), Saint Croix, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, U.S. Virgin Islands, Vietnam, Lebanon, United States of America, Azores, Peru, Kenya, Bermuda, Bonin Islands (=Ogasawara-Gunto), Brazil, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Indonesia, Japan, Italy, Greece, Iran, Jamaica, India, Hong Kong, Honduras, Hawaiian Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Australia, Guatemala, Israel 14980 0
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"Introduced on citrus seedlings from Palestine in 1934 [...] may be completely eradicated" (Morris 1937); "On guava, orange, Pittosporum" (Georghiou 1977); Şişman & Ülgentürk (2010) recorded C. floridensis on Citrus sp. (Rutaceae), Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl. (Rosaceae), Laurus nobilis L. (Lauraceae) and Nerium oleander L. (Apovynaceae). All stages of C. floridensis were found in high densities on host plants [...] Ficus benjamina, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Salix spp., Hedera helix (Ülgentürk et al. 2015); Eriobotrya japonica, Citrus sp., Nerium oleander, Laurus nobilis (Şişman and Ülgentürk 2010); most plants are ornamental (Demetriou pers. comm.)
Speculated (Demetriou pers. comm.)
Morris HM (1937) Injurious insects of Cyprus. Agricultural Department of Cyprus, Bulletin 4 (Ent. Ser. ) 21 pp.
Georghiou GP (1977) The insects and mites of Cyprus. With emphasis on species of economic importance to agriculture, forestry, man and domestic animals. Benaki Phytopathological Institute. Kiphissia, Athens Greece 347 pp.
Şişman S, Ülgentürk S (2010) Scale insects species (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Turkish Journal of Zoology 34: 219-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/zoo-0901-23
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.16969/teb.16125