Hemiptera Coccoidea new or little known for the Italian fauna

Abstract

Peliococcus chersonensis (Kiritshenko), Trionymus radicum (Newstead) (Pseudococcidae),
Stotzia ephedrae (Newstead) (Coccidae) and Quadraspidiotus mairei
(Balachowski) (Diaspididae) are recorded for the first time in Italy. New distributional
data are reported for Chaetococcus sulcii (Green), Peliococcus manifectus
Borchsenius, Phenacoccus asphodeli Goux, Dysmicoccus multivorus (Kiritshenko),
Volvicoccus volvifer (Goux) (Pseudococcidae), Protopulvinaria pyriformis Cockerell
(Coccidae), Aspidiotus spinosus Comstock, Chionaspis lepineyi Balachowsky,
Dynaspidiotus ephedrarum (Lindinger), Adiscodiaspis ericicola (Marchal), Rungaspis
capparidis (Bodenheimer) (Diaspididae).