EPPO Global Database

Unaspis citri(UNASCI)

Distribution details in Portugal (Azores)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2023: Present, restricted distribution
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present, only in some parts of the Member State concerned (2023-12).
From CABI Pest map 149 (1962): Present, no details
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (1999/037) : Sao Miguel island.

EPPO Reporting Service (2023/132) : first reported in Santa Maria Island (Azores). Under official control.

EPPO Reporting Service (2024/011) : detected on Faial and Graciosa islands.
References
* Borges PAV, Vieira V, Dinis F, Jarroca S (2005) List of arthropods. In: Borges PAV, Cunha R, Gabriel R, Martins AF, Silva L, Vieira V (eds.) (2005) A list of the terrestrial fauna (Mollusca and Arthropoda) and flora (Bryophyta, Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta) from the Azores. Direcção Regional do Ambiente and Universidade dos Açores, Horta, Angra do Heroísmo and Ponta Delgada, 318 pp.
------- Sao Miguel island.

* Franco JC, Russo A, Marotta S (2011) An annotated checklist of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of Portugal, including Madeira and Azores Archipelagos. Zootaxa 3004, 1-32.

* NHM 1925.

* NPPO of Portugal (2023-04, 2023-06, 2023-12).

* Soares; A.O.; Elias, R.B.; Schanderl, H. (1997) Encarsia citrina (Crawford) (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae) a parasitoid of Unaspis citri (Comstock) and Lepidosaphes beckii (Newman) (Homoptera, Diaspididae) in citrus orchards of São Miguel island (Azores). Boletin de Sanidad Vegetal. Plagas, 23(3), 449-456.