Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood 1870)
- Dataset
- The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Coccidae
- genus
- Pulvinaria
- species
- Pulvinaria floccifera
discussion
Recorded by Borg (1932) as being frequent on orange and bay trees at San Anton Gardens and its neighbourhood in Spring and early Summer, but much less frequent later in the season.
materials_examined
Material examined: MALTA, Rabat, 12. iii. 1994, 1 ♀ on Pittosporum sp., GW.