Pulvinaria floccifera ( Westwood 1870 )

Tanaka, Hirotaka & Kamitani, Satoshi, 2022, The identities of Pulvinaria camelicola Signoret 1873, stat. nov., and the related species, Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood 1870) (Hemiptera: Coccidae) in Japan, Zootaxa 5115 (3), pp. 438-450 : 443

Pulvinaria floccifera ( Westwood 1870)

( Figs 2 and 3 ; Tables 1 and 2 )

[Japanese common name: Okitsu-wata-kaigaramushi]

Coccus flocciferus Westwood 1870: 308 .

Pulvinaria floccifera ( Westwood 1870) ; Green 1897: 72; Tanaka and Amano 2007: 212.

Lecanium (Coccus) ochnaceae Kuwana 1909: 154 , syn. nov.

Pulvinaria okitsuensis Kuwana 1914 : Takahashi 1956: 27 (in part); Kawai 1972: 16; Kawai 1980: 150; Kawai 2003: 556, 646, 867, 952 (misidentifications).

Material examined. Lectotype female (here designated): ENGLAND or NETHERLANDS: No locality or exact collection date record,?1870. Host: Camellia sp. J . O. Westwood coll. ( OUMNH) ; Paralectotypes (here designated): same data as lectotype, 4 adult females ( OUMNH) .

Other material: JAPAN: Tokyo, on Illicium anisatum , 13.v.1949, coll. R. Takahashi, 1 adult female ( SEHU) ; Osaka, on Eurya sp. , 16.vi.1954, coll. R. Takahashi, 1 adult female ( SEHU) ; Tokyo, Bunkyou-ku, Hon-Komagome, Rikugi-en Gardens , on Eurya japonica , 18.v.1972, coll. S. Kawai, 6 adult females mounted on 2 slides ( KTUA) ; Tokyo, Bunkyou-ku, Kouraku, Koishikawa-Korakuen Gardens , on Cleyera japonica , 8.v.1972, coll. S. Kawai, 1 adult female ( KTUA); Tokyo, Setagaya-ku, Sakuragaoka, Tokyo University of Agriculture , on Eurya emarginata , 13.v.2000, coll. H. Tanaka, 10 adult females mounted singly (5 ELKU, 5 EUMJ); Kanagawa Prefecture, Ashigarashimo-gun, Hakone-cho, Motohakone, on Cleyera japonica , 25.v.2000, coll. H. Tanaka, 10 adult females mounted singly (5 ELKU, 5 EUMJ); Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka-shi, Nishi-ku, Motooka, on Eurya japonica , 7.iv.2021, coll. H. Tanaka, 2 adult females mounted singly (1 ELKU, 1 EUMJ), Shimane Prefecture, Izumo-shi, Sono-cho, Shinjiko Green Park, on Eurya japonica , 7.iv.2021, coll. H. Tanaka, 1 adult female ( ELKU) .

Figures

FIGURE 2. An adult female of Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood, 1870) on a young twig of Eurya japonica.

FIGURE 3. Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood, 1870), adult female collected in Tokyo in 2000. ANT, antenna; AP, anal plate; DA, dermal areolations; DMD, dorsal microduct; DS, dorsal seta; LG, leg; MP, multilocular pore; MS, marginal setae; POP, preopercular pores; SDP, spiracular disc pore; SSP, stigmatic spines; VMD, ventral microduct; VTD, ventral tubular ducts of types I–III. Scale bars: 200 µm for ANT; 100 µm for AP, DA and LG; 50 µm for SSP; 10 µm for others