Pests > Pests Entities > Insects > Aphids, Psyllids, Scales & Mealybugs, Whiteflies > Common names



Pests > Pests Entities > Insects > Aphids, Psyllids, Scales & Mealybugs, Whiteflies > Common names

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Common names of Icerya spp.

For Icerya species, it is particularly confusing to call them by names involving the word ‘mealybug’, as true mealybugs belong to family Pseudococcidae, while the Iceryas are members of the family Margarodidae.

Icerya aegyptiaca – breadfruit mealybug/ Egyptian fluted scale/ Egyptian
mealybug/ Egypt icerya /Egyptian cushion scale;

Icerya seychellarum – silvery cushion scale/ Okada cottony-cushion scale;

Icerya purchasi – cottonycushion scale/ Australian bug dorthesia/ fluted
scale/ mealy scale/ white scale.