Phoenicococcus, Cockerell

Moghaddam, Masumeh & Watson, Gillian W., 2024, The Scale Insects Of Iran (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) Part 3 The Soft Scales (Coccidae) And Other Families, Zootaxa 5542 (1), pp. 1-202 : 177

Genus PHOENICOCOCCUS Cockerell

Phoenicococcus Cockerell, 1899b: 262 . Type species: Phoenicococcus marlatti Cockerell by monotypy and original designation. Kermicoides Tang, 1977: 24 .

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: In life, body of adult female small and subspherical. In slide-mounted specimens, derm more-or-less sclerotized and covered in low, rounded dermal papillae. Antennae each 1 segmented, with apex bearing 5 short spines (some too small to be shown in Fig. 86 ). Legs absent or highly reduced. Spiracles each with an elongate bar without any associated sclerotized area, and a loose cluster of 12‒15 quinquelocular disc pores around opening. Anal ring situated ventrally, posterior to vulva, small, simple and heavily sclerotized, bearing posteriormost 2 setae (which appear to be on anterior of ring). Long tubular ducts (sometimes called 8-shaped tubular ducts), each with a longitudinal internal division that makes cross section of inner end appear bilocular, mostly scattered along dorsal submargin and margin, and ventrally.

Comments: The genus Phoenicococcus contains a single species, Phoenicococcus marlatti Cockerell , which occurs in Iran.

Figures

FIGURE 86. Adult female of Ortheziola marottai Kaydan & Szita, reproduced from Kaydan et al. (2014), page 73, fig. 22, with kind permission from the authors and the Editor of Zookeys.