Planchonia arabidis
Signoret, 1876
pittosporum pit scale
GALL
scale, attached to the stem in a low depression that is surrounded by a low ridge. Locally the stem is swollen and malformed... also leaves become disfigured ...
HOST PLANTS
polyphagous
Achillea millefolium, setacea; Aegonychon purpurocaeruleum; ?Alchemilla vulgaris; Alyssum montanum; Anthyllis vulneraria; Arabis collina, rosea; Bupleurum falcatum; Campanula garganica, glomerata, rapunculoides, rapunculus, trachelium; Capsella bursa-pastoris; Cardamine glauca; Centaurea scabiosa; Chenopodiastrum hybridum; Clinopodium acinos; Cota tinctoria; Echium vulgare; Epilobium palustre, roseum; Eupatorium cannabinum; Euphrasia; Falcaria vulgaris; Fragaria vesca; Gentianella ciliata, germanica; Geranium robertianum; Glaux maritima; Gypsophila fastigiata; Hedera helix; Helianthemum nummularium; Heracleum sphondylium; Hieracium; Holosteum umbellatum; Hylotelephium telephium; Hypericum perforatum, pulchrum; Inula ensifolia; Knautia arvensis; Lactuca serriola, viminea; Leontodon hispidus; Leucanthemum vulgare; Ligustrum vulgare; Linaria; Lithospermum officinale; Lotus corniculatus; Malva thuringiaca; Medicago falcata, lupulina; Melilotus dentatus; Nigella arvensis; Onobrychis arenaria; Origanum; Pastinca sativa; Picris hieracioides; Pimpinella saxifragae; Pittosporum tobira; Plantago lanceolata; Polygonum; Potentilla argentea, erecta, grandiflora, hirta, recta; Pulsatilla pratensis; Salvia x sylvestris, verticillata; Sanguisorba minor; Scabiosa ochroleuca; Scorzoneroides autumnalis; Scrophularia; Securigera varia; Seseli annuum, libanotis, osseum; Silene viscaria; Sisymbrium altissimum; Stachys officinalis, recta; Teucrium chamaedrys, scorodonia; Thesium humifusum, linophyllon subsp. montanum; Thymus serpyllum, vulgaris; Veronica chamaedrys, officinalis; Vicia disperma, tenuifolia.
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