Lepidosaphes beckii
French Polynesia, Reunion, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico & Vieques Island, Rodriques Island, Russia, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis Islands, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island, Niue, Nigeria, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Netherlands Antilles, Nepal, Mozambique, Morocco, Sardinia, Mexico, Tunisia, Montserrat, Zimbabwe, Malta, Mauritius, Zanzibar, Zaire, Yugoslavia, Western Samoa, Vanuatu (=New Hebrides), United States of America, United Kingdom, Uganda, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Seychelles, Thailand, Tajikistan (=Tadzhikistan), Taiwan, Syria, Suriname, Sri Lanka, Spain, South Africa, Solomon Islands, Sierra Leone, Sicily, Turkey, Canary Islands, Egypt, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Cyprus, Cuba, Corsica, Cook Islands, Comoros, Colombia, China, Federated States of Micronesia, Cape Verde, Antigua and Barbuda, Cameroon, Bulgaria, Brazil, Bermuda, Barbados, Azores, Australia, Argentina, Marshall Islands, Angola, Martinique, Algeria, Chile, Israel, Madagascar, Lebanon, Kiribati, Japan, Fiji, Italy, Madeira Islands, Iraq, Iran, India, Hong Kong, Hawaiian Islands, Georgia, Jamaica, Guyana, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guinea, French Guiana 15001 0
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Cryptogenic:
Citrus trees in a small area including Limassol town were found in 1934 to be heavily infected with the scale. Extensive fumigation has been carried out since with a view to preventing its spreading to other areas (Morris 1937); C. paradisi, C. limon (Şişman and Ülgentürk 2010).
Speculated (Demetriou pers. comm.)
Morris HM (1937) Injurious insects of Cyprus. Agricultural Department of Cyprus, Bulletin 4 (Ent. Ser. ) 21 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