| Icerya purchasi | |
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| Icerya purchasi female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Monophlebidae |
| Genus: | Icerya |
| Species: | I. purchasi
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| Binomial name | |
| Icerya purchasi Maskell, 1878
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Icerya purchasi (common name: cottony cushion scale) is a scale insect that feeds on more than 80 families of woody plants,[1] most notably on Citrus and Pittosporum. Originally described in 1878 from specimens collected in New Zealand as pests of kangaroo acacia and named by W.M. Maskell "after the Rev. Dr. Purchas who, [he] believe[d], first found it",[2] it is now found worldwide where citrus crops are grown. The cottony cushion scale originates from Australia.[3]
- ^ García Morales, M.; Denno, B.D.; Miller, D.R.; Miller, G.L.; Ben-Dov, Y.; Hardy, N.B. (2016). "Icerya purchasi". Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. 2016. doi:10.1093/database/bav118. PMC 4747323. PMID 26861659. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ^ Maskell, W.M. (1879) [1878]. "On some Coccidae in New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 11: 187–228.
- ^ Nair, K. S. S. (2007). Tropical Forest Insect Pests: Ecology, Impact, and Management. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139464857.