Monophleboides Morrison

Watson, Gillian W., 2022, Towards identification of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) of continental Africa: 2. Checklists and keys to six archaeococcoid families, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 301-356 : 335

Genus Monophleboides Morrison

Monophleboides ( Fig. 21 ) is an African genus of six species, three from North Africa and three Afrotropical ( García Morales et al. 2016). None are of economic significance, although several have been found on crop plants. Adult females have large tubular bilocular pores along margin, a single ventral cicatrix, but lack stout derm spines, a marsupium, and disk pores within the atria of the abdominal spiracles (Morrison 1927). None of the species has been studied to modern standards and it has not been possible to make an identification key due to lack of data. The species are as follows:

Monophleboides africanus : Namibia on Zygophyllaceae

Monophleboides arachidis : Democratic Republic of the Congo on Fabaceae ( Arachis hypogaea )

Monophleboides gymnocarpi ( Fig. 21 ): Egypt on Amaranthaceae , Caryophylaceae and Nitrariaceae

Monophleboides hirtus : Malawi and South Africa on Pinaceae ( Pinus caribaea )

Monophleboides sjostedti : Tanzania on grass ( Poaceae )

Monophleboides suaedae ssp. halocnemae : Tunisia on Amaranthaceae ( Halocnemum strobilaceum )

Monophleboides suaedae ssp. suaedae : Tunisia on Amaranthaceae ( Suaeda pruinosa )

Figures

FIGURE 21. Monophleboides gymnocarpi (Hall), adult female, developed from Morrison (1928: 126, Fig. 57).