Stotzia, Marchal

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 : 101

Genus STOTZIA Marchal

Stotzia Marchal, 1906: 143 . Type species: Stotzia striata Marchal by monotypy = Lichtensia ephedrae Newstead.

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Live adult female elongate oval and highly convex; ovisac pure white with longitudinal striations, composed of woolly or granular material, entirely covering dorsum. Slide-mounted body oval, but dorsal surface much larger than venter. Stigmatic clefts not developed; stigmatic setae almost undifferentiated from marginal setae, although usually with 1 or 2 rather longer and stouter setae in each stigmatic area. Marginal setae spinose, with parallel sides, blunt apices and with rather narrow basal sockets; each side with 25–36 setae between anterior and posterior stigmatic areas. Dorsal tubular ducts numerous, evenly distributed throughout. Preopercular pores absent. Anal cleft fairly short. Anal ring normal, bearing 8 (occasionally 10) setae. Venter with 3 or more pairs of long setae on last 3 abdominal segments anterior to anogenital fold.

Comments: Worldwide, four species are included in Stotzia at present ( García Morales et al. 2016); only S. ephedrae (Newstead) is known from Iran ( Bodenheimer 1944b).