Valid Names Results
Coccus moestus De Lotto, 1959 (Coccidae: Coccus)Nomenclatural History
- Coccus moestus De Lotto 1959: 164. Type data: ZANZIBAR: on clove tree.. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
Common Names
- moestus soft scale GillNaWi1977
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 8 | Genera: 9
- Anacardiaceae
- Anacardium occidentale | DeLott1959
- Mangifera indica | DeLott1959
- Aspleniaceae
- Asplenium nidus | KawaiMaUm1971 | (= Neottopteris nidus)
- Goodeniaceae
- Scaevola | Beards1966
- Lauraceae
- Persea americana | WilliaWa1990
- Malvaceae
- Hibiscus | KawaiMaUm1971
- Moraceae
- Artocarpus altilis | GillNaWi1977
- Myrtaceae
- Myrcianthes fragrans | DeLott1959 | (= Eugenia aromatica)
- Putranjivaceae
- Drypetes integerrima | KawaiMaUm1971
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 19
- Bonin Islands (=Ogasawara-Gunto) | Kawai1987
- China | Tang1991
- Costa Rica | BenDov1993
- Cuba | MestreKo2018
- Ethiopia | DeLott1959
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Caroline Islands | BenDov1993
- Truk Islands | BenDov1993
- Guadeloupe | MatileEt2006
- Guam | BenDov1993
- Guyana (=British Guiana) | BenDov1993
- Haiti | PerezG2008
- Jamaica | BenDov1993
- Japan | Kawai1980
- Kenya | DeLott1959
- Palau | BenDov1993
- Puerto Rico & Vieques Island
- Puerto Rico | NakahaMi1981
- Tanzania |
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Trinidad | BenDov1993
- Vanuatu (=New Hebrides) | WilliaWa1990
- Zanzibar | DeLott1959
Keys
- CaoWaHo2022: pp.126 ( Adult (F) ) [Coccus species in China]
- LagowsHo2019: pp.382-384 ( Adult (F) ) [Coccus species from Africa]
- WangFe2012a: pp.61 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult female Coccus known from China]
- Tang1991: pp.77 ( Adult (F) ) [China]
- WilliaWa1990: pp.83 ( Adult (F) ) [Tropical South Pacific]
- Kawai1980: pp.141-142 ( Adult (F) ) [Japan]
- Beards1966: pp.483 ( Adult (F) ) [Micronesia]
- DeLott1959: pp.153-154 ( Adult (F) ) [Ethiopian Coccus sp.]
Remarks
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by De Lotto (1959), Beardsley (1966), Gill et al. (1977), Williams & Watson (1990) and by Tang (1991).
Illustrations
Citations
- Beards1966: distribution, host, taxonomy, 483,485-487
- BenDov1993: catalog, 84
- CaoWaHo2022: key, 126
- ChoiLe2018: morphology, 127
- DeLott1959: description, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 152, 154, 164-166
- Gavril2018: reproduction, 230
- GillNaWi1977: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 28-30
- Kawai1980: distribution, host, taxonomy, 142
- Kawai1987: distribution, host, taxonomy, 77
- KawaiMaUm1971: distribution, host, 16
- KozarWa1985: catalog, distribution, 77
- LagowsHo2019: key, 382-384
- MatileEt2006: distribution, host, 165
- MestreKo2018: distribution, 5
- Meurge2011: distribution, 80
- NakahaMi1981: distribution, host, 30
- PerezG2008: distribution, 212
- Tang1991: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 92-93
- Tao1999: distribution, host, taxonomy, 54-55
- WangFe2012a: taxonomy, 61
- Watson2021: distribution, 521
- WheeleHe2005: distribution, host, life history, 209-213
- Willia2001: distribution, 225-227
- WilliaBe2009: catalog, taxonomy, 32
- WilliaWa1990: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 94-96
