Mark Meckes
10th October 2004, 11:07 PM
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Pseudococcidae
Chaetococcus bambusae (Maskell)
Common Name
giant bamboo mealybug
bamboo mealybug
From http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&issn=0015-4040&volume=087&issue=03&page=396#I0015-4040-87-3-396-F01**
Volume 87, Issue 3 (September 2004)
NEW INVASIVE SPECIES OF MEALYBUGS, PALMICULTOR LUMPURENSISAND CHAETOCOCCUS BAMBUSAE (HEMIPTERA: COCCOIDEA: PSEUDOCOCCIDAE), ON BAMBOO IN FLORIDA
by Greg Hodges, Amanda Hodges
Chaetococcus bambusae is an obscure mealybug that first was introduced in Florida during 1956 and subsequently eradicated. However, a small population was able to establish at Coral Gables, Florida in 1998. Adults of this mealybug are legless and generally found beneath the sheaths of their bamboo hosts. The infestation at Coral Gables went unnoticed until the mealybugs were exposed by removal of older leaf sheaths by grounds workers. This population did not induce significant economic damage to stands of bamboo at the infestation site. Subsequent populations were found in Miami and Orange County, Florida.
Bamboo mealybug (http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/name_c/a_216.htm) Chaetococcus bambusae (Maskell) Distribution - Australia
(Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Web site)
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Pseudococcidae
Chaetococcus bambusae (Maskell)
Common Name
giant bamboo mealybug
bamboo mealybug
From http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&issn=0015-4040&volume=087&issue=03&page=396#I0015-4040-87-3-396-F01**
Volume 87, Issue 3 (September 2004)
NEW INVASIVE SPECIES OF MEALYBUGS, PALMICULTOR LUMPURENSISAND CHAETOCOCCUS BAMBUSAE (HEMIPTERA: COCCOIDEA: PSEUDOCOCCIDAE), ON BAMBOO IN FLORIDA
by Greg Hodges, Amanda Hodges
Chaetococcus bambusae is an obscure mealybug that first was introduced in Florida during 1956 and subsequently eradicated. However, a small population was able to establish at Coral Gables, Florida in 1998. Adults of this mealybug are legless and generally found beneath the sheaths of their bamboo hosts. The infestation at Coral Gables went unnoticed until the mealybugs were exposed by removal of older leaf sheaths by grounds workers. This population did not induce significant economic damage to stands of bamboo at the infestation site. Subsequent populations were found in Miami and Orange County, Florida.
Bamboo mealybug (http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/name_c/a_216.htm) Chaetococcus bambusae (Maskell) Distribution - Australia
(Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Web site)