Contribution to the Knowledge of Scale Insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) of Lithuania, including Two Species New for the Country

Malumphy, Chris; Ostrauskas, Henrikas; Pye, Daniel R. L.

doi:10.2478/v10043-009-0012-9

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“…A total of 27 species are recorded from the county, which is the highest number of species found in any county and represents 73% of the known native coccoid fauna of Lithuania. To put this into perspective, the most intensively studied counties in terms of their native coccoid fauna are Kaunas (third largest county) and Vilnius (largest county) where 20 and 18 species, respectively, are known (Malumphy et al , 2009Vengeliauskaitė 1965). Klaipėda county is also rich in species (20) for reasons discussed by Malumphy et al (2009).…”

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“…To put this into perspective, the most intensively studied counties in terms of their native coccoid fauna are Kaunas (third largest county) and Vilnius (largest county) where 20 and 18 species, respectively, are known (Malumphy et al , 2009Vengeliauskaitė 1965). Klaipėda county is also rich in species (20) for reasons discussed by Malumphy et al (2009). Alytus is the sixth largest (5,425 km²), most southern and most forested (44%) county in Lithuania.…”

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“…Slide-mounted specimens have been deposited at the following institutes: The Food and Environment Research Agency (UK); State Service of Plant-growing under the Ministry of Agriculture (Lithuania); and Kaunas Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum (Lithuania). Brief field descriptions and photographs (where available) are presented of the ten scale insect species reported for the first time from Lithuania; field descriptions of all the other species are provided by Malumphy et al ( , 2009. Morphological descriptions of the teneral adult females are provided by Kosztarab and Kozár (1987).…”

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“…The scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) of Lithuania have recently been studied by Malumphy et al ( , 2009. They concluded that the native fauna remains inadequately studied and that examination of Cyperaceae, Ericaceae and Poaceae plants would reveal many more native scale species, particularly in the southern counties of Lithuania.…”

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“…She also recorded that three species were found at all sites investigated, implying that Chionaspis salicis (Linnaeus), Lepidosaphes ulmi (Linnaeus) and Parthenolecanium corni (Bouché) occurred in Alytus county without providing any details. The native coccoid fauna of Kaunas county was investigated by Vengeliauskaitė (1965) and , and Klaipėda county by Malumphy et al (2009). The coccoid fauna of Marijampolė county has not previously been investigated.…”

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New Data on the Scale Insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) of Southern Lithuania, including Ten Species New for the Country

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2010

Acta Zoologica Lituanica

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The results of an investigation of scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) in Alytus, Kaunas and Marijampolė counties of southern Lithuania by the first two authors during a week in August 2009 are presented. Two further samples from Klaipėda and four samples from Vilnius counties are also included. Twenty-eight species of scale insect are recorded, of which ten are new for Lithuania: Diaspidiotus bavaricus (Lindinger), D. ostreaeformis (Curtis), Eriococcus baldonensis (Rasiņa), E. inermis Green, Eriopeltis stammeri Schmutterer, Mirococcopsis subterraneus (Newstead), Orthezia urticae (Linnaeus), Peliococcus 'chersonensis group', Phyllostroma myrtilli (Kaltenbach) and Puto pilosellae (Šulc). The highest number of species (twenty-seven) was found in Alytus county, representing 73% of the native coccoid fauna. This may be due at least in part to it being the most southern and the most forested county with large areas under protection. Twelve species were recorded from Kaunas, seven from Marijampolė, one from Klaipėda, and one from Vilnius counties. The parasitoids Metaphycus zebratus (Mercet) and Subprionomitus ?paludosus Hoffer (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) were reared from E. stammeri; both are recorded from this scale insect host and from Lithuania for the first time.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%