Bamboo pit scale, Asterolecanium bambusae (Boisduval)

Tagged as: Asterolecaniidae, Coccoidea, Homoptera

(Homoptera: Coccoidea: Asterolecaniidae)

Issue No. 220
Avas B. Hamon
November, 1980

Bamboo pit scale, Asterolecanium bambusae (Boisduval)

Introduction

Asterolecanium bambusae was originally described as Chermes bambusae by Boisduval (1869:260) on Bambusa arundinacea (Retz.) Willd. and B. distorta Nees from Algeria. This pit scale insect is one of the most common insects on bamboo in Florida and occurs wherever bamboo is grown.

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