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Species Antonina pretiosa - Noxious Bamboo Mealybug


Seventh taxonomic study of North American mealybugs (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae)
By D.R. Miller and H.L. McKenzie
Hilgardia 41: 489-542, 1973
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Scalenet notes,
"Redescribed 16 species; of pseudococcids; taxonomic status; gen. assignment; relationship to other mealybugs given; syns.; n. comb.; revised keys to six genera; morphology; distribution; hosts."

Descriptions and notes on male mealybugs (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae)
By John W. Beardsley
Proc. Hawaiian Entomol. Soc., Vol. 18, pp. 81-98, 1962
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Describes Hawaiian species, but some occur in U.S. mainland.

An annotated key to the families of scale insects (Homoptera: Coccoidea) of America, North of Mexico...
By Howell J.O., Williams M.L.
Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 69: 181‒189, 1976
Full title: An annotated key to the families of scale insects (Homoptera: Coccoidea) of America, North of Mexico, based on characteristics of the adult female
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Morphology and taxonomy of the adult males of Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae (Homoptera : Coccoidea)
By S.A. Afifi
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, Supplement, 13, 1–210 , 1968

The visual system of male scale insects
By Elke K. Buschbeck and Martin Hauser
Science of Nature 96(3):365-74, 2009

The California species of mealy bugs
By Gordon Floyd Ferris
Stanford University Publications, University Series. Palo Alto, 1918

A Systematic Catalogue of the Mealybugs of the World
By Yair Ben-Dov
Athenaeum Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1994
Full title:
A Systematic Catalogue of the Mealybugs of the World (Insecta, Homoptera, Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae and Putoidae): With Data on Geographical Distribution, Host Plants, Biology, and Economic Importance.

A study of the scale insect genera Puto ... and Ceroputo ...
By D.J. Williams, P.J. Gullan, D.R. Miller, D. Matile-Ferrero, and S.I. Han
Zootaxa 2802: 1-22, 2011
D.J. Williams, P.J. Gullan, D.R. Miller, D. Matile-Ferrero, and S.I. Han, A study of the scale insect genera Puto Signoret (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Putoidae) and Ceroputo Šulc (Pseudococcidae) with a comparison to Phenacoccus Cockerell (Pseudococcidae), Zootaxa 2802: 1-22, 2011.

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