Pseudococcus viburni (Signoret, 1875) Coccoidea

Pseudococcus viburni View in CoL

(obscure mealybug)

is a cosmopolitan species, very similar taxonomically to Pseudococcus maritimus (Ehrhorn) , and has been recorded previously in Brazil (as P. maritimus ) only in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo states ( Hambleton 1935; Lepage 1938; Williams & Granara de Willink 1992). This species has a very broad host range including economically important crops such as apple, citrus, grapes, and tomato, as well as papaya and potato ( Ben­Dov 2004e). In life, adult females of P. viburni are pinkish­purple to gray, generally lightly dusted with white powdery wax, with short, fine lateral wax filaments and one pair of long terminal wax filaments usually more than half as long as the body ( McKenzie 1967; Miller et al. 2005a).