Volvicoccus volvifer (Goux, 1945)

Kaydan, Mehmet Bora, Kozár, Ferenc & ERKıLıç, Lerzan, 2014, New And Little Known Scale Insect Species (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) In Turkey, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 60 (3), pp. 227-238 : 234-236

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12626204

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/89409361-FFCC-0879-927E-6BB47E87FECA

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Felipe

scientific name

Volvicoccus volvifer (Goux, 1945)
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Volvicoccus volvifer (Goux, 1945) View in CoL

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Materialexamined. Iğdır- Tuzluca- Gaziler, 29.v.2008, N: 40°06′218″, E: 043°27′952″, 1000 m, Stipa sp. , 1 f, coll. M. B. Kaydan (KPCT: 4367); Iğdır- Tuzluca- Gaziler, 29.v.2008, N: 40°06′218″, E: 043°27′952″, 1000 m, Stipa sp. , 2 ff, coll. M. B. Kaydan (KPCT: 4361); Iğdır- Tuzluca- Gaziler, 29.v.2008, N: 40°06′218″, E: 043°27′952″, 1000 m, Agropyronrepens, 1 f, coll. M. B. Kaydan (KPCT: 4361); Erzurum, 09.vii.2010, N: 39°37′386″, E: 040°59′697″, 2134 m, Poaceae , 2 ff, coll. M. B. Kaydan (KPCT: 4819); Iğdır- Tuzluca- Gaziler, 29.v.2008, N: 40°06′218″, E: 043°27′952″, 1000 m, Stipa sp. , 3 ff, coll. M. B. Kaydan (KPCT: 4715); Hakkari, Yüksekova, 23.v.2008, N: 37°40′419″, E: 044°03′589″, 1686 m, Stipa sp. , 1 f, coll. M. B. Kaydan (KPCT: 4277); Muş, Bulanık, 10.vi.2009, N: 33°45′709″, E: 041°53′478″, Poaceae , 1 f, coll. M. B. Kaydan (KPCT: 4529).

Host plants. Aegilops sp. , Festuca ovina , Koeleria glauca , Stipa sp. , S. capillata , S. lessingiana , S. pennata , S. pennata , S. pulcherrima , Taeniatherum asperum (Poaceae) (BEN-DOv et al. 2014). Distribution. Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, TurkeyandUkraine (BEN-DOv et al. 2014).

Remarks. Thisspecieswaspreviouslyrecordedon Aegilops sp. , Stipa sp. inCentralandEastAnatolianregionsofTurkey (KAYDAN etal. 2007). It was noted that V. volvifer lives under the leaf sheaths of the host plant and rarely on the roots. The genus Volvicoccus is characterized by the presence ofcharacteristicoralcollartubularducts ( Fig. 2 View Fig ). Thisspeciesshowsgreat variationsregardingthenumberofmultilocularporesandoralcollartubular ductsondorsumandventeramongthedifferentpopulations ( GAvRiLOv 2007, KALANDYK-KOŁODZıEjCZYK & SiMON 2011). Becauseofthisreasonadrawingof aTurkishspecimenisgiven.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pseudococcidae

Genus

Volvicoccus

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