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The mealybugs (Homoptera, Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae) of sugar-cane, rice and sorghum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

D. J. Williams
D. J. Williams
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Commonwealth Institute of Entomology
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The taxonomy of 39 species of mealybugs (Pseudococcidae) attacking sugar-cane, rice and sorghum is discussed. Twenty-seven species are described, eight of them as new. Some aspects of the biology derived from the literature are added, together with a key to the 39 species, and host and distribution records of each.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , August 1970 , pp. 109 - 188
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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