Verification Study on Sugarcane Soft Scale Insects, Pulvinaria elongata Newstead and Pulvinaria tenuivalvata (Newstead)in Egypt(Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)

摘要

In 1992, several samples of a long, crimson coloured soft scale insect were collected from sugarcane leaves cultivated in a greenhouse used for breeding the varieties of sugarcane at The Plant Protection Research Station, Sabaheia, Alexandria, Egypt.They were slide mounted and kindly identified by Dr. D. Miller at the Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland as Pulvinaria elongata Newstead. Hence, it was published as a new record in Egypt by Karam and Abu-ElKhair (1992) with description and figure after Hamon and Williams (1984).