“…Within the scale insects (Coccoidea), many species of mealybugs (Pseudococcidae) and soft scales (Coccidae) feeding on grapevine were shown to transmit GLD ampeloviruses in different grapevine‐growing regions in the world (Herrbach et al, ; Herrbach, Le Maguet, & Hommay, ) and represent at the local scale a non‐negligible way of virus dispersal (Almeida et al, ). Moreover, these piercing‐sucking insects are known to transmit three grapevine‐infecting viruses associated to “rugose wood complex”: Grapevine virus A (GVA), GVB and GVE (Herrbach et al, ), assigned to the genus Vitivirus . It has been demonstrated that, although scale species are unable to fly (except adult males which do not feed and therefore are not vectors), some mealybug species are able to rapidly spread the disease within plots and from infected plots to new plantations (Cabaleiro et al, ; Golino, Weber, Sim, & Rowhani, ; Le Maguet et al, , ).…”