Aphomia gularis (Zeller) (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) at Baie d'Urfé, Quebec

1955 ◽  
Vol 87 (6) ◽  
pp. 239-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. H. H. Gray
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
National Museum ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
States Department ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
The U.S

This moth was first reported on this continent as a pest in a consignment of peanuts, received in California from China (de Ong, 1919). Mr. Hahn W. Capps, of the United States Department of Agriculture, informs me, in litt., that 6 adults from that infestation, together with 2 from “near prunes” in 1930, and 8 from a prune warehouse in 1931, at San José, are in the U.S. National Museum.

scholarly journals ASPIDIOTUS PERNICIOSUS, Comstock, and AONIDIA FUSCA, Maskell: A QUESTION OF IDENTITY OR VARIATION

1896 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
W. M. Maskell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
States Department ◽  
The Family ◽  
San Jose Scale

In the “Report of the Entomologist of the United States Department of Agriculture for the year 1880,” Professor Comstock described (p. 304) an extremely injurious insect of the family Coccidæ, to which he gave the name Aspidiotus Perniciosus, or “the pernicious scale,” and he stated that this insect attacked a very large number of deciduous fruittrees in California, “excepting peach, apricot, and black tartarean cherry.” Later, this pest was observed, described and discussed by many persons interested in horticulture, and in America it is generally known by the trivial name of “the San José scale,” and is looked on as a most troublesome thing.

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