Fetykó, K., Kozár, F., & Daróczi, K. 2010 Species list of the scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) of Romania, with new data.. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica 45(2): 291-302

Notes: The scale insect fauna of Romania was poorly known. Based on bibliographic sources and on collections made by the authors a complete checklist is presented. The number of scale insect species presented here from Romania is the following: 178 from outdoor and 29 species from indoor and greenhouse condition. The outdoor species belong to 9 families and 4 families for indoor species. The most numerous outdoor families were: Pseudococcidae (67 species), Coccidae (42 species), Diaspididae (37 species) and Eriococcidae (16 species). Most of the indoor species belong to: Diaspididae (20 species).The present paper contains data of 5 families and 28 species with collecting places, recording data. Three species were new for the scale insect fauna of the country: Spilococcus nanae Schmutterer, 1957, Spinococcus calluneti (Lindinger, 1912) and Rhizoecus albidus Goux, 1936.