Ortheziola, Sulc

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 : 175

Genus ORTHEZIOLA Šulc

Ortheziola Šulc, 1895: 1 . Type species: Ortheziola vejdovskyi Šulc , by monotypy.

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Members of Ortheziola are recognized by having: (i) live adult female body with a series of marginal, mediolateral and medial white waxy protrusions; and in slide-mounted specimens, (ii) antennae each with 3 segments, third antennal segment with a slender apical seta; (iii) eye stalk protruding, thumb-like; (iv) legs well developed, with trochanter and femur fused, tibia and tarsus fused; leg setae robust and spine-like; tarsus without digitules; claw digitules like short setae, claw without a denticle; (v) labium 2 segmented, with many setae and with 3 long setae near apex very close together, all situated in a single setal socket; (vi) modified pores, each with 2, 3 or 4 loculi, scattered over surface; (vi) abdominal spiracles on anterior abdominal segments ventral, with at least 1 present on each side of segments I, II or III; posterior abdominal spiracles located on dorsum near anal ring, surrounded by a cluster of multilocular pores; (vii) anal ring bearing 6 setae; and (viii) sclerotized plate present on dorsum anterior to anal ring, wider than long.

Comments: Worldwide, 12 species are included in Ortheziola at present ( García Morales et al. 2016); only O. marottai Kaydan & Szita has been recorded from Iran ( Kaydan et al. 2014).