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Received: 11 August 2009; Accepted: 28 August 2009
were carried out between June 2004 and
July 2008. Scale settles at the base of young
shoots and needles sucking juice of fir trees.
It is oviparous and biparental. It completes
one generation per year and overwinters as
2nd instar nymph. Pre-ovipositing females
appear from the beginning of May until the
beginning of July. Egg-laying occurs from
mid-June to early August. Eggs hatch from
mid-July to mid-August and settled 1st instar
nymphs occur frommid-August to mid-Sep-
tember. A similar phenology has been re-
ported in Hungary (2). Small differences in
the time of appearance of the developmen-
tal stages could be attributed to differences
in host plants and climatic conditions.
In Greece, larvae and adults of Chilocorus
bipustulatus (L.) were observed to prey on
the scales.
P. inopinatus infestations observed on A. ce-
phalonica growing on Taygetos mountain did
not cause damage to the plants. Nevertheless,
it would be useful to investigate the presence
and development of this scale on Picea abies,
P. glauca and other species of Abies and Picea
growing in Greece, on which the scale could
potentially develop high populations (2).
Scale insect studies of Dr. F. Kozár were sup-
ported by grants of EU (Synthesis, GB-TAF-1318,
FR-TAF-1319, ES-TAF-2590) and OTKA (Hungari-
an National Science Foundation, No. K 75889).
ΣΥΝΤΟΜΗ ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ
Πρώτη καταγραφή του Physokermes inopinatus Danzig & Kozár
(Hemiptera: Coccidae) στην Ελλάδα
Γ.Ι. Σταθάς και F. Kozár
Περίληψη Στην παρούσα εργασία καταγράφεται για πρώτη φορά στην Ελλάδα η παρουσία του κοκ-
κοειδούς εντόμου Physokermes inopinatus Danzig & Kozár (Hemiptera: Coccidae) (Hungarian spruce
scale) σε έλατα του είδους Abies cephalonica (ενός νέου ξενιστή του εντόμου), στο όρος Ταΰγετος (Πε-
λοπόννησος, Νότια Ελλάδα). Δίδονται επίσης ορισμένα στοιχεία του τρόπου προσβολής και της οικο-
λογίας του κοκκοειδούς.
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