University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 2015 New distribution and host records for white coconut scale, Parlagena bennetti Williams (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) Takumasa Kondo Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (CORPOICA), [email protected] Penny Gullan Australian National University, Canberra, [email protected] Gillian W. Watson Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, [email protected] Alex Enrique Bustillo Pardey Programa de Plagas y Enfermedades Cenipalma, Colombia, [email protected] Luis Guillermo Montes Entomología, Programa de Plagas y Enfermedades, Cenipalma, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Kondo, Takumasa; Gullan, Penny; Watson, Gillian W.; Bustillo Pardey, Alex Enrique; and Montes, Luis Guillermo, "New distribution and host records for white coconut scale, Parlagena bennetti Williams (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)" (2015). Insecta Mundi. 927. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/927 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. INSECTA MUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics 0422 New distribution and host records for white coconut scale, Parlagena bennetti Williams (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) Takumasa Kondo Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Corpoica) Centro de Investigación Palmira, Calle 23, Carrera 37, Continuo al Penal Palmira, Valle, Colombia Penelope J. Gullan Division of Evolution, Ecology & Genetics Research School of Biology, The Australian National University Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia Gillian W. Watson Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture 3294 Meadowview Road Sacramento, CA 95832-1437, U.S.A. Alex Enrique Bustillo Pardey Programa de Plagas y Enfermedades Cenipalma, Colombia Luis Guillermo Montes Entomología, Programa de Plagas y Enfermedades, Cenipalma Campo Experimental Palmar de la Vizcaína Cenipalma-Zona Central, Colombia Date of Issue: June 5, 2015 CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FL Takumasa Kondo, Penelope J. Gullan, Gillian W. Watson, Alex Enrique Bustillo Pardey, Luis Guillermo Montese New distribution and host records for white coconut scale, Parlagena bennetti Williams (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) Insecta Mundi 0422: 1–6 ZooBank Registered: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D7CCC1D9-9A76-4088-83EF-927E9FC9B7CF Published in 2015 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P. O. Box 141874 Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 USA http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/ Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published on any non-marine arthropod. Topics considered for publication include systematics, taxonomy, nomenclature, checklists, faunal works, and natural history. Insecta Mundi will not consider works in the applied sciences (i.e. medical entomology, pest control research, etc.), and no longer publishes book reviews or editorials. Insecta Mundi publishes original research or discoveries in an inexpensive and timely manner, distributing them free via open access on the internet on the date of publication. Insecta Mundi is referenced or abstracted by several sources including the Zoological Record, CAB Ab- stracts, etc. Insecta Mundi is published irregularly throughout the year, with completed manuscripts assigned an individual number. Manuscripts must be peer reviewed prior to submission, after which they are reviewed by the editorial board to ensure quality. One author of each submitted manuscript must be a current member of the Center for Systematic Entomology. Chief Editor: Paul E. Skelley, e-mail: [email protected] Head Layout Editor: Eugenio H. Nearns Editorial Board: J. H. Frank, M. J. Paulsen, Michael C. Thomas Review Editors: Listed on the Insecta Mundi webpage Manuscript Preparation Guidelines and Submission Requirements available on the Insecta Mundi web- page at: http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/insectamundi/ Printed copies (ISSN 0749-6737) annually deposited in libraries: CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia Museu de Zoologia, São Paulo, Brazil Agriculture and Agrifood Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada The Natural History Museum, London, UK Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warsaw, Poland National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, USA Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Electronic copies (Online ISSN 1942-1354, CDROM ISSN 1942-1362) in PDF format: Printed CD or DVD mailed to all members at end of year. Archived digitally by Portico. Florida Virtual Campus: http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/insectamundi University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Digital Commons: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/ Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-135240 Copyright held by the author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Com- mons, Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Layout Editor for this article: Eugenio H. Nearns 0422: 1–6 2015 New distribution and host records for white coconut scale, Parlagena bennetti Williams (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) Takumasa Kondo Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Corpoica) Centro de Investigación Palmira, Calle 23, Carrera 37, Continuo al Penal Palmira, Valle, Colombia [email protected] Penelope J. Gullan Division of Evolution, Ecology & Genetics Research School of Biology, The Australian National University Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia [email protected] Gillian W. Watson Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture 3294 Meadowview Road Sacramento, CA 95832-1437, U.S.A. [email protected] Alex Enrique Bustillo Pardey Programa de Plagas y Enfermedades Cenipalma, Colombia [email protected] Luis Guillermo Montes Entomología, Programa de Plagas y Enfermedades, Cenipalma Campo Experimental Palmar de la Vizcaína Cenipalma-Zona Central, Colombia [email protected] Abstract. The white coconut scale, Parlagena bennetti Williams, 1969 (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) is reported for the fi rst time on New Zealand fl ax, Phormium tenax J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. (Xanthorrhoeaceae), coconut, Cocos nucifera L., Manila palm, Veitchia merrillii (Becc.) H.E. Moore, oil palm, Elaeis guineensis Jacq. and an oil palm hybrid OxG: E. oleifera x E. guineensis (Arecaceae) in continental Colombia, and on coconut from Venezuela. Previ- ously, P. bennetti was known only on the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and San Andres, causing serious damage to coconut, its only known host until now. A brief characterization of P. bennetti and an updated list of 23 species of scale insects of the family Diaspididae reported worldwide on Elaeis spp. is provided. Key words. Armored scale, Colombia, Elaeis guineensis, insect pest, oil palm, species list, Venezuela. Resumen. Se reporta por primera vez la presencia de la escama blanca del cocotero Parlagena bennetti Williams, 1969 (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) sobre lino de Nueva Zelanda, Phormium tenax J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. (Xanthor- rhoeaceae), palma de coco Cocos nucifera L., palma Manila Veitchia merrillii (Becc.) H.E. Moore, palma de aceite Elaeis guineensis Jacq. y un hibrido de palma de aceite OxG: E. oleifera x E. guineensis (Arecaceae) en Colombia continental y sobre cocotero en Venezuela. Hasta ahora P. bennetti solo se conocía en la isla de Trinidad y en San Andrés, en el Caribe, causando graves daños al cocotero, el único hospedero conocido hasta ahora. Se provee una breve caracterización de P. bennetti, y un listado actualizado de 23 insectos escama de la familia Diaspididae re- portadas sobre Elaeis spp. en el mundo. Palabras Clave. Escama de armadura, Colombia, Elaeis guineensis, insecto plaga, listado de especies, palma de aceite, Venezuela. 1 2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0422, June 2015 KONDO ET AL. Introduction Scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea) are small sap-sucking insects with soft bodies, with about 8000 described species in more than 30 families worldwide (Ouvrard et al. 2013). Recently, the fi rst author received samples of an armored scale causing damage to oil palm in the State of Santander, in northeastern Colombia. The scale insect samples were slide-mounted by the second author and identifi ed as Parlagena bennetti Williams through the use of the original description by Williams (1969), and assistance from the third author. Later, the fi rst author inspected palm species and other monocots planted in the grounds of the Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research, Palmira Research Station and neighboring areas in the city of Palmira, State of Valle del Cauca, and found the same species on leaves and fruit of coconut, Manila palm, New Zealand fl ax and on leaves of