Silver Hills, abundant on foliage and stems of Lantana camara. ([2019 Malumpy] Montserrat Invertebrate Species List Version 3. August 2023. Dataset);
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?Invasive / Widespread Native - West Indies And Mainland ([2019 Malumpy] Montserrat Invertebrate Species List Version 3. August 2023. Dataset);
It is polyphagous, feeding on plants belonging to 46 families, and is a pest of Citrus and many ornamental and native plants. ([Malumpy 2019] Montserrat Invertebrate Species List Version 3. August 2023. Dataset);
Not Usually A Pest In The Caribbean. Native to Northern South America, now cosmopolitan due to anthropogenic activities (Malumphy, C. (2020). Annotated list of invertebrates observed in Montserrat, West Indies, November 2019. FERA); Now cosmopolitan due to anthropogenic activities, being restricted to indoor plantings in cooler temperate regions. It is not usually a pest in the Caribbean, where it is usually found on native plants. Recorded from Montserrat by CIE (1957a – early CIE maps are unreliable without further evidence) and this record is repeated by the Invasive Species Compendium (http://www.cabi.org/isc/) but not accepted by ScaleNet (an online world catalogue of scale insects http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/scalenet.htm). Its presence in Montserrat is confirmed here. ([2019 Malumpy] Montserrat Invertebrate Species List Version 3. August 2023. Dataset);
Malumphy, C. (2020). Annotated list of invertebrates observed in Montserrat, West Indies, November 2019. FERA; [2019 Malumpy] Montserrat Invertebrate Species List Version 3. August 2023. Dataset;