Phyllococcus oahuensis Ehrhorn, 1912:149
Oahu mealybug, Opuhe mealybug
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Cissococcus? oahuensis Ehrhorn, 1912:149 (original combination)
Transferred from the genus Cissococcus to Phyllococcus by (Ehrhorn, 1916:236).
Conservation Status
Last record: 30 January 1911 (Oahu); June 1913 (Lanai) (both Percy et al., 2024:357)
Rediscovered in 2007 on Maui (new island record) (Percy et al., 2024:357)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Lanai, Maui & Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Two host plant species recorded: Urera glabra and U. sandvicensis (Beardsley, 1984)
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ehrhorn, E. M. (1912). A few notes on Coccidae. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 2: 147-151.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Beardsley, J. W., Jr. (1960) A preliminary study of the males of some Hawaiian mealybugs (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae).: Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society.
Beardsley, J. W., Jr. (1984) Gall-forming Coccoidea. In: Ananthakrishnan, T. N. (ed). Biology of Gall Insects. Oxford & IBH New Delhi 362 pp.
Ben-Dov, Y. (1994) A systematic catalogue of the mealybugs of the world (Insecta: Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae and Putoidae) with data on geographical distribution, host plants, biology and economic importance.
Ehrhorn, E. M. (1916). Contributions to the knowledge of the Dactylopiinae of Hawaii. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(3): 231-247. [p. 236]
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Nishida, G.M., Ed. 1994. Hawaiian Terrestrial Arthropoda Checklist. Second Edition. Hawaii Biological Survey, Contribution No. 94-04. Bishop Museum: Honolulu, Hawaii. 287 pp.
Percy, Diana M., Watson, Gillian W. and Hodgson, Chris J. (2024). The endemic Hawaiian mealybug genus Phyllococcus Ehrhorn, 1916 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae): redescription of the type species and description of a new species on an endangered host plant, Cryptocarya mannii (Lauraceae). Zootaxa 5447(3): 355-372. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5447.3.2
Sasscer, E.R. (1912) Catalogue of recently described Coccidae - IV.: Technical Series. Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. Washington.
Williams, D.J. & Miller, D.R. (1999) Two new genera and species of mealybugs (Hemiptera : Coccoidea : Pseudococcidae) that produce plant galls.: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996a). Phyllococcus oahuensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 July 2012.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996b). Phyllococcus oahuensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T17120A6799402. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T17120A6799402.en. Accessed on 01 July 2022.
Zimmerman, E. C. (1948). Homoptera: Sternorrhyncha.: Insects of Hawaii.
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