New Asterolecaniidae s.l. (Homoptera: Coccinea) from different regions of the world and some distributional records

Vol. 32 No. 3 (2019)
Published: 5 August 2019
pit scale insects, taxonomy, morphology, Asterolecaniinae, Lecanodiaspidinae, new species, new genus
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Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin
coccids@gmail.com
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg 199034, Russian Federation.

A new genus and four new species of Asterolecaniidae s.l. are described and illustrated: Forticauda borchsenii n. gen., n. sp. from India, Abditicoccus mystroxyloni n. sp. from South Africa, Mycetococcus sinensis n. sp. from China, and Stictacanthus sugonyaevi n. sp. from Vietnam. New data on distribution are provided for four species: Bambusaspis bambusae (Boisduval, 1869) is recorded for the first time from Indonesia (Sumatra), Hsuia cheni Borchsenius, 1969 from Laos, Pauroaspis daedalea Gavrilov-Zimin, 2013 from Thailand and Indonesia (Sumatra), and Planchonia arabidis Signoret, 1876 from Cuba.

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Gavrilov-Zimin, I. A. (2019). New Asterolecaniidae s.l. (Homoptera: Coccinea) from different regions of the world and some distributional records. Tropical Zoology, 32(3), 142–154. Retrieved from https://biology.pagepress.org/tz/article/view/23

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