Abstract
2 New records are important for documenting new distributional data and for alerting researchers to a potential new pest. The scale insect fauna (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of Tunisia has been little studied and is still poorly known. Additions are continuously reported resulting from faunistic studies including our report of Coccus pseudomagnoliarum (Kuwana) from the Cap Bon region (Jendoubi et al., 2008). Here we report two additional species of scale insects as new country records for Tunisia: Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock (Coccidae) and Chry som - phalus pinnulifer (Maskell) (Diaspididae). Brief comments on zoogeographical distribution and the pest status of each species are provided. Both species were collected during a survey in autumn 2009 listing species of scale insects in the main citrus-growing regions of Tunisia: Nabeul (northeast), and Beja and Jen - douba (northwest). All slide-mounted females were identified at the Univer sity of Catania, referring to the keys of Balachowsky (1956), McKenzie (1956), Hamon and Williams (1984) and Pellizzari and Camporese (1994).
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