Malumphy, C.P., Ostrauskas, H., & Pye, D. 2010 New data on the scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) of southern Lithuania, including ten species new for the country.. Acta Zoologica Lituanica 20(3): 253-263

Notes: The results of an investigation of scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) in Alytus, Kaunas and Marijampole counties of southern Lithuania by the first two authors during a week in August 2009 are presented. Two further samples from Klaip?da and four samples from Vilnius counties are also included. Twenty-eight species of scale insect are recorded, of which ten are new for Lithuania: Diaspidiotus bavaricus (Lindinger), D. ostreaeformis (Curtis), Eriococcus baldonensis (Rasina), E. inermis Green, Eriopeltis stammeri Schmutterer, Mirococcopsis subterraneus (Newstead), Orthezia urticae (Linnaeus), Peliococcus chersonensis group', Phyllostroma myrtilli (Kaltenbach) and Puto pilosellae (Sulc). The highest number of species (twenty-seven) was found in Alytus county, representing 73% of the native coccoid fauna. This may be due at least in part to it being the most southern and the most forested county with large areas under protection. Twelve species were recorded from Kaunas, seven from Marijampol?, one from Klaipeda, and one from Vilnius counties. The parasitoids Metaphycus zebratus (Mercet) and Subprionomitus ?paludosus Hoffer (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) were reared from E. stammeri; both are recorded from this scale insect host and from Lithuania for the first time.