TABLE 3. The 48 countries of continental Africa, sorted by the number of scale insect and mealybug species recorded in the literature from each of them, and by region (data from the ScaleNet database (García Morales et al. 2016)). Within each category, the country with the most records is at the top of the list.
No. species Northern Africa Eastern Africa Southern Africa Central Africa Western Africa
300-530 South Africa
200-300 Kenya
Egypt Zimbabwe
150-199 Algeria Morocco Tanzania Uganda
100-149 Cameroon Angola
50-99 Ethiopia Mozambique Eritrea Malawi Dem. Rep. Congo Ghana Nigeria Côte d’Ivoire Guinea Senegal Sierra Leone
0-49 Tunisia Sudan Libya Western Sahara Somalia Zambia Rwanda Burundi Djibouti Namibia Eswatini Botswana Lesotho Rep. Congo Cent. African Rep. Chad Equatorial Guinea Benin Togo Mali Mauritania Niger Liberia Gambia Guinea-Bissau Burkina Faso
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Published as part of Watson, Gillian W., Ouvrard, David (2021). Towards the identification of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) of continental Africa: 1. Identification of the families. Zootaxa 5052 (2): 151-190. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.2.1 on page 154