Formicococcus kawaii, Tanaka, 2022

Tanaka, Hirotaka, 2022, A taxonomic study of three mealybug species (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) infesting dwarf bamboo in Japan, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5178 (4), pp. 334-346 : 339

Formicococcus kawaii sp. nov.

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[Japanese common name: Oo-take-kona-kaigaramushi]

Material examined. Holotype adult female: Japan, / Tokyo, Minato-ku, / Minami-Aoyama, / Aoyama cemetery / on Pleioblastus chino / 7.vi.1972 / coll. S. Kawai, mounted singly ( KTUA) ; Paratype: same data as holotype, 1 adult female mounted singly ( KTUA) .

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FIGURE 2. Formicococcus kawaii sp. nov., adult female collected in Tokyo, Japan in 1972. All abbreviations and scale bar lengths are the same as in Figure 1.