A survey for the host plants of Fig Wax Scale Ceroplastes rusci (Linnaeus, 1758) was conducted in Uttarakhand province, India. Among six new recorded during study, four are records C. rusci. global check list also prepared.

Con el objetivo de determinar la riqueza y composición los insectos fitófagos asociados a plantaciones aguacate para región Caribe colombiana, se realizaron estudios campo en tres principales núcleos productivos: Montes María (MM), Sierra Nevada Santa Marta (SNSM) Serranía del Perijá (SP). El trabajo realizó 78 fincas, abarcando 26 municipios muestreo. Para captura utilizó método manual nivel p...

New Caledonia is home to many endemic species of plants and animals. Here, we improve our grasp on that biota by describing five new species of armored scale insects in the genus Andaspis: Andaspis brevicornutasp. n, A. conicasp. n., A. nothofagisp. n., A. novaecaledoniaesp. n., and A. ornatasp. n. Each is known exclusively from collections on southern beeches (Nothofagus spp.) in New Caledonia...

The adult female of Odonaspis bouldersensis Ben-Dov, new species, collected in the Boulders National Park, Queensland, Australia, off a species of Poaceae, is described.

The present paper describes a male coccid (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber with the largest known hamulohalteres on any extant or extinct coccid. Aside from this character, specimen has an unusual assortment of features, including prolonged head three cylindrical dorsal simple eyes rows joining laterally, single ocellus dorsally placed at apex head, compound ventro-lateral...