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Balanococcus diminutus (New Zealand flax mealybug)

Synonyms: Erium diminutum; Pseudococcus diminutus (homotypic); Trionymus diminutus

Prey / Diet

Cordyline australis (cabbage tree)[1]
Phormium colensoi (mountain flax)[2]
Phormium tenax (New Zealand flax)[2]

Predators

Chilocorus renipustulatus (kidney-spot ladybird)[2]
Nephus redtenbacheri[2]
Propylaea quattuordecimpunctata <Unverified Name>[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0