Matileortheziola Kozár & Foldi

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 : 349

Genus Matileortheziola Kozár & Foldi

This is a small African genus containing two species found in plant detritus ( Kozár & Foldi 2000; García Morales et al. 2016); they are of no economic significance.

Key to species of Matileortheziola in Africa, based on Kozár (2004)

1(0) In life, wax plates circular. In a slide mount, setae on legs and antennae spine-like. Anterior edge of ovisac band with single row of multilocular disc pores................................................................ angolaensis ( Fig. 29 )

- In life, wax plates not circular. In a slide mount, setae on legs and antennae lanceolate. Anterior edge of ovisac band without any multilocular disc pores............................................................................ lanceolata

Figures

FIGURE 29. Matileortheziola angolaensis (Kozár & Foldi), adult female, reproduced from Kozár and Foldi (2000: 253, Fig. 1), rights reserved - with permission of Revue française d’Entomologie (N.S.).