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Notes on Matsucoccus macrocicatrices Richards (Homoptera: Margarodidae) and its Association with Septobasidium pinicola Snell in Eastern Canada1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. Y. Watson ,
G. R. Underwood  and
J. Reid
W. Y. Watson
Affiliation:
Forest Insect Laboratory, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
G. R. Underwood
Affiliation:
Forest Biology Laboratory, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
J. Reid
Affiliation:
Forest Pathology Laboratory, Maple, Ontario.
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Three known species of scale insects belonging to the genus Matsucoccus occur on pine trees in northeastern North America: M. gallicolis Morr., on pitch pine, Pinus rigida Mill., and scrub pine, Pinus virginiana Mill. (Parr, 1939); M. resinosae Bean and Godwin on red pine, P. resinosa Ait. (Bean and Godwin, 1955); and M. macrocicatrices Richards on eastern white pine, P. strobus L. (Richards, 1960). This last species. in contrast with the others, is closely associated with the fungus Septobasidium pinicola Snell. From 1957 to 1959 personnel of the Forest Insect Laboratory, Sault Ste. Marie, and the Forest Biology Laboratory, Fredericton, collected some 500 specimens from 21 areas in Ontario and the Maritime Provinces. These collections, augmented by herbarium specimens provided by the Forest Pathology Laboratory, Maple, from five other areas in Ontario, not only the insect specimens necessary for the dercription of the species, but information on its biology and distribution.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 92 , Issue 9 , September 1960 , pp. 662 - 667
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1960

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