Scale insects from Dutch New Guinea

New Guinea is next to Greenland the largest island in the world; its area is about 785000 sq. kilometers (with adjacent islands ca. 806000 sq.kms). It lies within the tropics, quite near the equator, and is largely covered by a luxuriant vegetation, so that a rich fauna of scale insects may be expec...

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Main Author: Reyne, A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
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Published: 1961
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Online Access:https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/504978
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spelling ftnaturalis:oai:repository.naturalis.nl:504978 2024-02-11T10:04:19+01:00 Scale insects from Dutch New Guinea Reyne, A. 1961-01-01 application/pdf https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/504978 unknown https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/504978 Beaufortia vol. 8 no. 92, pp. 121-167 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1961 ftnaturalis 2024-01-17T23:25:49Z New Guinea is next to Greenland the largest island in the world; its area is about 785000 sq. kilometers (with adjacent islands ca. 806000 sq.kms). It lies within the tropics, quite near the equator, and is largely covered by a luxuriant vegetation, so that a rich fauna of scale insects may be expected, though extremely little has been published on this subject.\nIn FERNALD\xe2\x80\x99S catalogue with supplements (1903\xe2\x80\x941915), and in the Zoological Record for the years 1915\xe2\x80\x941957, only 4 new species are reported from New Guinea, viz. Myxolecanium kibarae BECCARI (FERNALD No. 1005), Aulacaspis major RUTHERFORD, Ceroplastes murrayi FROGGATT, and Steatococcus samaraius MORRISON (Zool. Ree. 1916, 1919, and 1927). Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Naturalis Institutional Repository Greenland Morrison ENVELOPE(-63.533,-63.533,-66.167,-66.167)
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description New Guinea is next to Greenland the largest island in the world; its area is about 785000 sq. kilometers (with adjacent islands ca. 806000 sq.kms). It lies within the tropics, quite near the equator, and is largely covered by a luxuriant vegetation, so that a rich fauna of scale insects may be expected, though extremely little has been published on this subject.\nIn FERNALD\xe2\x80\x99S catalogue with supplements (1903\xe2\x80\x941915), and in the Zoological Record for the years 1915\xe2\x80\x941957, only 4 new species are reported from New Guinea, viz. Myxolecanium kibarae BECCARI (FERNALD No. 1005), Aulacaspis major RUTHERFORD, Ceroplastes murrayi FROGGATT, and Steatococcus samaraius MORRISON (Zool. Ree. 1916, 1919, and 1927).
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author Reyne, A.
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Scale insects from Dutch New Guinea
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title Scale insects from Dutch New Guinea
title_short Scale insects from Dutch New Guinea
title_full Scale insects from Dutch New Guinea
title_fullStr Scale insects from Dutch New Guinea
title_full_unstemmed Scale insects from Dutch New Guinea
title_sort scale insects from dutch new guinea
publishDate 1961
url https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/504978
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