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Opuntia aurantiaca (jointed prickly pear; tiger-pear)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Opuntia aurantiaca, commonly known as tiger-pear, jointed cactus or jointed prickly-pear, is a species of cactus from South America. The species occurs naturally in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay and is considered an invasive species in Africa and Australia.
View Wikipedia Record: Opuntia aurantiaca

Predators

Cactoblastis cactorum (Cactus Moth)[1]
Dactylopius austrinus (Tiger pear scale)[2]
Dactylopius confusus (california cochineal scale)[2]
Diaspis echinocacti (cactus scale)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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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