Common name
California Red Scale; Californian Red Scale
Informal group
Insects
Territories
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Other notes
Polyphagous, feeding on many crop and ornamental plants, and is a major pest of citrus. Suspected to have been recorded from Diego Garcia (Malumpy, C. (2021). Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccoidea) of the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory); Restricted to indoor plantings in cool temperate areas;
References
Zoological Society of London (2022) A List of the Terrestrial Invertebrates of BIOT, (Including Ecology, Biology, Conservation, Distribution and Collection Notes). Dataset.; Malumpy, C. (2021). Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccoidea) of the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory)