Correa, M.C.G., Palero, F., Pacheco da Silva, V.C., Kaydan, M.B., Germain, J.-F., Abd-Rabou, S., Daane, K.M., Cocco, A., Poulin, E., & Malausa, T. 2022 Identifying cryptic species of Planococcus infesting vineyards to improve control efforts. Journal of Pest Science doi.org/10.1007/s10340-022-01532-1
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Despite its economic impact, the taxonomic status of this mealybug species is still unclear, and recent studies suggest the possibility that P. ficus from eastern (i.e., Egypt) and western (i.e., France) Mediterranean regions may correspond in fact to two distinct species. The purpose of this work was to deepen our current knowledge of putative P. ficus from eastern Mediterranean using molecular tools and morphological analysis and test for the existence of cryptic species within P. ficus.. Morphological and molecular analyses confirmed the existence of two species:
