Pseudaulacaspis pentagona
(White Peach Scale)

Interactions where Pseudaulacaspis pentagona is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
		sucks sap of thickly encrusted trunk			Catalpa bignonioides	Indian Bean-tree, Indian-bean-tree	Lamiales: Bignoniaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, MacLeod, A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale					Foodplant / sap sucker		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Bignoniaceae/Catalpa bignonioides/	Catalpa bignonioides	indian bean-tree, indian-bean-tree		thickly encrusted	trunk
		sucks sap of thickly encrusted branch (old)			Catalpa bignonioides	Indian Bean-tree, Indian-bean-tree	Lamiales: Bignoniaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, MacLeod, A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale					Foodplant / sap sucker		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Bignoniaceae/Catalpa bignonioides/	Catalpa bignonioides	indian bean-tree, indian-bean-tree		thickly encrusted	branch (old)
		sucks sap of thickly encrusted trunk			Prunus	plums, cherries and laurels, planted cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, MacLeod, A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale					Foodplant / sap sucker		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus/	Prunus	plums, cherries and laurels, planted cherry		thickly encrusted	trunk
		sucks sap of thickly encrusted branch (old)			Prunus	plums, cherries and laurels, planted cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, MacLeod, A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale					Foodplant / sap sucker		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus/	Prunus	plums, cherries and laurels, planted cherry		thickly encrusted	branch (old)
		sucks sap of thickly encrusted trunk			Pyrus	pears	Rosales: Rosaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, MacLeod, A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale					Foodplant / sap sucker		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Pyrus/	Pyrus	pears		thickly encrusted	trunk
		sucks sap of thickly encrusted branch (old)			Pyrus	pears	Rosales: Rosaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, MacLeod, A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale					Foodplant / sap sucker		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Pyrus/	Pyrus	pears		thickly encrusted	branch (old)
		sucks sap of thickly encrusted trunk			Rubus	brambles, blackberries and raspberries	Rosales: Rosaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, MacLeod, A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale					Foodplant / sap sucker		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Rubus/	Rubus	brambles, blackberries and raspberries		thickly encrusted	trunk
		sucks sap of thickly encrusted branch (old)			Rubus	brambles, blackberries and raspberries	Rosales: Rosaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, MacLeod, A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale					Foodplant / sap sucker		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Rubus/	Rubus	brambles, blackberries and raspberries		thickly encrusted	branch (old)
		sucks sap of thickly encrusted trunk			Ribes	currants and gooseberry	Saxifragales: Grossulariaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, MacLeod, A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale					Foodplant / sap sucker		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Saxifragales/Grossulariaceae/Ribes/	Ribes	currants and gooseberry		thickly encrusted	trunk
		sucks sap of thickly encrusted branch (old)			Ribes	currants and gooseberry	Saxifragales: Grossulariaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, MacLeod, A., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale					Foodplant / sap sucker		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Saxifragales/Grossulariaceae/Ribes/	Ribes	currants and gooseberry		thickly encrusted	branch (old)

Interactions where Pseudaulacaspis pentagona is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		is parasitised by			Cosmospora flammea	a lichenicolous fungus	Hypocreales: Nectriaceae	Nectria flammea (Tulasne) Dingley, Trans. Roy. Soc. N.Z. 79: 189, 1951, Booth, C., 1972	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Nectriaceae/Cosmospora flammea/	Cosmospora flammea	a lichenicolous fungus					Animal / parasite			/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Diaspididae/Pseudaulacaspis pentagona/	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	white peach scale								parasitises

Author & Year	Title	Source
Booth, C., 1972	Nectria flammea (Tulasne) Dingley, Trans. Roy. Soc. N.Z. 79: 189, 1951	I.M.I. Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria CMI Descriptions of Pathenogenic Fungi and Bacteria Sheet 715.
MacLeod, A., 2007	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	PRAs for consultation on pest risk management PRAs for consultation on pest risk management.

Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (White Peach Scale) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

INSECTA
(true insects)

Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (White Peach Scale) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

COCCOIDEA
(scale insects, coccids)

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (White Peach Scale)
Family	DIASPIDIDAE (armoured scales)
Superfamily	COCCOIDEA (scale insects, coccids)
Suborder	STERNORRHYNCHA (a suborder of bugs)
Order	HEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division	Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Pseudaulacaspis pentagona is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (White Peach Scale) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

DIASPIDIDAE
(armoured scales)

COCCOIDEA
(scale insects, coccids)

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

General Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
MacLeod, A.	2007	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Pseudaulacaspis pentagona	PRAs for consultation on pest risk management PRAs for consultation on pest risk management.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (White Peach Scale):

DIASPIDIDAE
(armoured scales)

COCCOIDEA
(scale insects, coccids)

STERNORRHYNCHA
(a suborder of bugs)

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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