Meaning | scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees. |
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Synonym | mealy bug |
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Member of | Pseudococcidae, family Pseudococcidae | scalelike insects |
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Narrower | Comstock mealybug, Comstock's mealybug, Pseudococcus comstocki | Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States |
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citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug, Pseudococcus fragilis | destructive especially to citrus |
citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri | feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus |
Broader | coccid insect | scale insects and mealybugs |
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