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Pulvinaria acericola

Family: Coccidae | Genus: Pulvinaria
Hosts: Acer negundo / Acer rubrum / Acer saccharinum / Cornus florida / Ilex cornuta / Ilex crenata / Ilex opaca / Nyssa sylvatica / Persea borbonia / Sassafras albidum
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, white, black
Texture: woolly
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Summer
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Location: lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form: non-gall, scale
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ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics
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Pulvinaria acericola (Walsh & Riley, 1868)
cottony maple leaf scale

Lecanium acericola Walsh & Riley 1868
Pulvinaria innumerabilis acericola (Walsh & Riley, 1868); Cockerell 1896b: 329. change of combination and rank
Pulvinaria acericola (Walsh & Riley, 1868); Fernald 1903b: 128. change in status (level)

Hosts: Ilex cornuta, crenata, opaca; Picris; Cornus florida; Nyssa sylvatica; Persea borbonia; Sassafras albidum; Acer negundo, rubrum, saccharinum

Range: AL, AR, CT, DC, FL, GA, IN, IO, LA, MD, MI, MN, MS, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV

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- García Morales M, Denno BD, Miller DR, Miller GL, Ben-Dov Y, Hardy NB: (2016) ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematicsŠ

Reference: http://scalenet.info/catalogue/Pulvinaria%20acericola/

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GarcĂ­a Morales M, Denno BD, Miller DR, Miller GL, Ben-Dov Y, Hardy NB
2016
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Gallformers Contributors
2024
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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