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Icerya purchasi (common name:
cottony cushion scale) is a
scale insect that
feeds on more than 80
families of
woody plants, most
notably on
Citrus and...
- Australia.
Icerya aegyptiaca (Douglas 1890).
Icerya albolutea ****erell 1898.
Icerya bimaculata De
Lotto 1959.
Icerya brachystegiae Hall 1940.
Icerya brasiliensis...
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insects are
serious commercial pests,
notably the
cottony cushion scale (
Icerya purchasi) on
Citrus fruit trees; they are
difficult to
control as the scale...
- S2CIDÂ 23849389.
Royer M (1975). "Hermaphroditism in Insects.
Studies on
Icerya purchasi". In
Reinboth R (ed.). Inter****uality in the
Animal Kingdom. Berlin...
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attacked orange trees in the
United States was the
cottony cushion scale (
Icerya purchasi),
imported from
Australia to
California in 1868.
Within 20 years...
- all black. The
species feeds exclusively on the
cottony cushion scale,
Icerya purchasi,
which feeds on
trees including acacia, citrus, magnolia, olive...
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Biological control:
larval Novius cardinalis feeding on
Icerya purchasi...
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insect in the
tribe Iceryini.
Adult females somewhat resemble the
widespread Icerya purchasi (cottony
cushion scale),
having a
light orange body,
black legs...
- source?]
According to
Gerald A.
Kerkut the
species is
might be
similar to
Icerya purchasi. As of 2008 it was one of the
three insect species where hermaphroditism...
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include various aphids, mites, and leafhoppers, the
cotton cushiony scale (
Icerya purchasi), and root-knot
nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.). It can be attacked...
