Orthezia, Bosc d'Antic
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14448213 |
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Genus ORTHEZIA Bosc d’Antic View in CoL
Orthezia Bosc d’Antic, 1784: 173 View in CoL . Douglasia MacGillivray, 1921: 110–111 View in CoL , 483.
Diagnostic characters of the adult female: The genus Orthezia View in CoL is recognized by having: (i) live adult female entirely covered by white wax plates; and in slide-mounted specimens, (ii) antennae each with 7 or 8 segments, basal 3 segments not conspicuously enlarged; (iii) tibia and tarsus clearly divided; claws usually with denticles; (iv) spines grouped in definite bands and clusters; (v) anal ring with 6 long setae; (vi) thoracic spiracles each without atrial disc pores; and (vii) disc pores of quadrilocular type only.
Comments: Worldwide, 23 species are included in Orthezia at present ( García Morales et al. 2016); only O. urticae (Linnaeus) is known from Iran ( Kaussari 1957).
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Orthezia
| Moghaddam, Masumeh & Watson, Gillian W. 2024 |
Orthezia Bosc d’Antic, 1784: 173
| MacGillivray, A. D. 1921: 111 |
| Bosc d'Antic, L. A. G. 1784: 173 |