Scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) species on pine trees of Turkey

Authors

SELMA ÜLGENTÜRK
NEVZAT EVREN
BİKEM AYHAN
ÖZLEM DOSTBİL
OKTAY DURSUN
HASAN SUNGUR CİVELEK

DOI

10.3906/zoo-1112-15

Abstract

Coccoidea species on pine trees (Pinus brutia, P. halepensis, and P. pinea) were collected from natural pine forests, mainly in the Aegean, Mediterranean, and some neighboring (Central Anatolian, Marmara) regions of Turkey in 2008-2011. A total of 14 species were determined from Coccidae (2 species), Diaspididae (8 species) Marchalinidae (1 species), Matsucoccidae (1 species), Monophlebidae (1 species), and Pseudococcidae (1 species), and 2 of them (Gomezmenoraspis pinicola Leonardi and Poaspis intermedia Goux) are new records for Turkish fauna. While the most common pests were respectively Leucaspis pusilla Löw, Marchalina hellenica Gennadius, Matsucoccus josephi (Bodenheimer and Harpaz), G. pinicola, and Palaeococcus fuscipennis Burmeister on pine trees, Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus, Lepidosaphes ulmi Linnaeus, Diaspidiotus jaapi Leonardi, Phenacoccus yerushalmi Ben-Dov, and Torosaspis turcica Ülgentürk and Kozár were minor species.

Keywords

Coccoidea, pest, pine trees, scale insect, host, distribution, Turkey

First Page

623

Last Page

636

Recommended Citation

ÜLGENTÜRK, SELMA; EVREN, NEVZAT; AYHAN, BİKEM; DOSTBİL, ÖZLEM; DURSUN, OKTAY; and CİVELEK, HASAN SUNGUR (2012) "Scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) species on pine trees of Turkey," Turkish Journal of Zoology: Vol. 36: No. 5, Article 6. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1112-15
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/vol36/iss5/6