Common name
Latania Scale
Informal group
Insects
Territories
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Other notes
Restricted to indoor plantings in cool temperate areas. Polyphagous, recorded from mostly woody plants. A serious pest of many agricultural crops and ornamental plants (Malumpy, C. (2021). Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccoidea) of the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory)).
References
Malumpy, C. (2021). Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccoidea) of the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory).; Zoological Society of London (2022) A List of the Terrestrial Invertebrates of BIOT, (Including Ecology, Biology, Conservation, Distribution and Collection Notes). Dataset.