Family Pseudococcidae Rank Species | Genus Dysmicoccus | |
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Dysmicoccus brevipes is a mealybug. The scientific name was published for the first time by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1893. The species is known to live as a parasite at species from the genus Ananas, citrus trees and coffee plants.
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Characteristics
Dysmicoccus brevipes has a pink to pink-orange coloured body. The body's shape varies from round till oval and it is between the 2.3 and 3.0 millimetres long. The species is viviparous.
Female examples remain a larva for an average of 56 days but the range varies from 31 till 80 days. When the larva are fully grown – which takes an average of 96 days – they produce an offspring consisting of 234 larva average in a time span of 25 days. The larva itself have a flat and hairy body and they change their skin circa three times during the period they are a larva. They remain a larva for an average of 34 days.
Distribution
Dysmicoccus brevipes can be found in a wide variety of regions. It has been found in Hawaii, the Pacific, Central and South America, Australia and Africa.