Palaeolecanium, 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 : 70

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5542.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14448042
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scientific name	Palaeolecanium
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Genus PALAEOLECANIUM Šulc View in CoL

Palaeolecanium Šulc, 1908: 36 View in CoL . Type species: Lecanium bituberculatum Signoret, 1873 View in CoL by original designation.

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Live adult female broadly oval, moderately convex, with margins sloping. Slide-mounted body without stigmatic clefts; stigmatic setae numbering 3 or fewer in each stigmatic area. Preopercular pores present in long, narrow mid-dorsal line. Dorsum with tubular ducts of 2 types. Legs each with tibia distinct from tarsus but without articulatory sclerosis; claw digitules dissimilar, with 1 narrower than the other.

Comments: Worldwide, two species are included in Palaeolecanium Šulc ( García Morales et al. 2016); only P. bituberculatum (Signoret) is known from Iran ( Bodenheimer 1944b).