A new African soft scale genus, Pseudocribrolecanium gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae), erected for two species, including the citrus pest P. andersoni (Newstead) comb. nov

A new African genus of soft scale insects, Pseudocribrolecanium gen. nov. is erected to accommodate Akermes colae Green & Laing and Cribrolecanium andersoni (Newstead). The adult females and first-instar nymphs of the two species are redescribed and illustrated. Taxonomic keys to separate the ad...

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Autor principal: Kondo, Takumasa
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Library 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19537997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/1536-2442(2006)6[1:ANASSG]2.0.CO;2
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Sumario:A new African genus of soft scale insects, Pseudocribrolecanium gen. nov. is erected to accommodate Akermes colae Green & Laing and Cribrolecanium andersoni (Newstead). The adult females and first-instar nymphs of the two species are redescribed and illustrated. Taxonomic keys to separate the adult females and first-instar nymphs are provided. The affinity of Pseudocribrolecanium with the tribe Paralecaniini in the subfamily Coccinae is discussed.

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