Sphaerolecanium, 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 : 98

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5542.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2DB3A5B7-4292-4CD9-B6D8-FA97EB48DD16

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14448087

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/981B8798-FFFC-392E-92DA-9104318EDA8B

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Sphaerolecanium
status

 

Genus SPHAEROLECANIUM Šulc View in CoL View at ENA

Sphaerolecanium Šulc, 1908: 36 View in CoL . Type species: Coccus prunastri Boyer de Fonscolombe View in CoL by monotypy and original designation.

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Dorsum of slide-mounted adult female with long band of preopercular pores mixed with long fine setae extending from anal plates anteriorly to level of antennae; venter without tubular ducts; pregenital disc-pores mostly each with 6 loculi, which extend only to metathorax. Legs lacking tibio-tarsal articulatory scleroses; claw digitules dissimilar.

Comments: Sphaerolecanium Šulc is a monotypic genus found in the Palaearctic region, including Iran, although it has been intercepted also from elsewhere in the world ( García Morales et al. 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Coccidae

Loc

Sphaerolecanium

Moghaddam, Masumeh & Watson, Gillian W. 2024
2024
Loc

Sphaerolecanium Šulc, 1908: 36

Sulc, K. 1908: 36
1908
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