Coccus longulus (Douglas)

Kondo, Takumasa & Muñoz, Jazmín Adriana, 2016, Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) associated with avocado crop, Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae) in Valle del Cauca and neighboring departments of Colombia, Insecta Mundi 2016 (465), pp. 1-24 : 10

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4645809
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D87176BB-292D-4A7C-B106-EEC015A66561
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4645935
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3414244A-6D04-ED0B-FF13-CD871401FC63
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Coccus longulus (Douglas)
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Material studied. Colombia. Valle del Cauca: Caicedonia: Finca Linares, 04°17 ′ 53.2 ″ N, 75°51 ′ 50.9 ″ W, 1490 m, 02.iii.2009, coll. J. Ramos, 1 ( UVCO), 1 ( MECP).

Distribution. Afrotropical: Agalega Islands, Angola, Cape Verde, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Saint Helena, Sao Tome, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe. Australasian: American Samoa, Australia, Bonin Islands, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii); Kiribati, Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Western Samoa. Nearctic: Mexico, USA. Neotropical: Bermuda, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands. Oriental: Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand. Palaearctic: Canary Islands; China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia; United Kingdom ( England) ( Ben-Dov et al. 2015).

Remarks. Of tropicopolitan distribution. Coccus longulus was found on the underside of the leaves of avocado alongside the secondary veins on avocado of the ‘Booth’ cultivar.