title: Scale Insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) on Myrciaria dubia (Myrtaceae) in Brazil.
abstract: Commercial cultivation of the fruit tree Myrciaria dubia (Myrtaceae) is being developed in Brazil but phytophagous insects, including scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), can become pests in plantations. The coccids Ceroplastes jamaicensis White, Coccus viridis (Green), Parasaissetia nigra (Nietner), Pseudokermes vitreus (Cockerell) (Coccidae), and the diaspidid Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis (Green) were collected on M. dubia in the municipality of Belém and Tomé-Açu, state of Pará (PA), metropolitan and Northeast Pará mesoregions, Brazil. A key to species of Coccoidea recorded on M. dubia, based on adult females, is provided. Photographs for all scale insects reported on M. dubia are provided. Ceroplastes jamaicensis is recorded for the first time for Brazil and is herein reported for the first time associated with this host.
authors.affiliation: Fundação Estadual de Pesquisa Agropecuária (FEPAGRO), Rua Gonçalves Dias, 570, Menino Deus, Porto Alegre, RS, 90130-060, Brasil. vera-wolff@fepagro.rs.gov.br.
authors.forename: V R S
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Wolff
authors.affiliation: Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Corpoica), Centro de Investigación, Palmira, Colombia.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.affiliation: Univ Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Fac de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: A L B G
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Peronti
authors.affiliation: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, PA, Brasil.
authors.forename: A C S
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Noronha
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D005638:Fruit; D006430:Hemiptera; D027822:Myrtaceae; D011156:Population Density; D014197:Trees
keywords: Amazon basin; Diaspididae; camu-camu; native fruit tree