Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Phenacoccus parvus
Escama, Scale
Herbivore; arid zone; April; bush near shore. The species was originally described from the Galápagos. It is adventive or maybe native to Galápagos, and has spread out of the Neotropics and is now known to be nearly circumtropical (Williams and Watson, 1988: 159, Williams and Granara de Willink, 1992). It occurs on a long list of host plants
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Suborder
Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily
Coccoidea
Family
Pseudococcidae
Genus
Phenacoccus
Species
parvus
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1923
Mode of introduction: Accidental
Introduction Pathway: Contaminant
Subpathway: Contaminant on plants (inc. seeds and plant associated material)
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: No data
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Genovesa
- Peck, S.B. (2001) Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 278 pp.
- Lincango, M.P. Hodgson, C. & Causton, C. (2008) Lista anotada de los insectos escama (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) de las islas Galápagos, Ecuador. Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 17 pp.
- Lincango, P. Hodgson, C., Causton, C. & Miller, D. (2010) An updated checklist of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Galapagos Research, 67: 3-7.
- Morrison, H. (1924) The Coccidae of the Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica 5(13): 143-152.
- Linsley, E.G. Usinger, R.L. (1966) Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series 33(7): 113-196.
- Williams, M.L. (1977) Scale insects of the Galapagos islands In D.R Miller, J.A Davidson, M. Kosztarab (Eds.), Morphology and Systematics of scales insects (Ed.127, Vol. 9, pp. 85-98). Research Division Bulletin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and State University.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Phenacoccus parvus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11083. Accessed 6 May 2025.