Published November 29, 2024 | Version v1

Orthezia Bosc d'Antic

  • 1. Department of Insect Taxonomy Research, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2. Department of Insect Taxonomy Research, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran. & Science: Research, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, U. K. gillian. watson @ nhm. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9914 - 0094 * Corresponding author. moghadam @ iripp. ir; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0908 - 838 X & Department of Insect Taxonomy Research, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran.

Description

Genus ORTHEZIA Bosc d’Antic

Orthezia Bosc d’Antic, 1784: 173. Douglasia MacGillivray, 1921: 110–111, 483.

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: The genus Orthezia is recognized by having: (i) live adult female entirely covered by white wax plates; and in slide-mounted specimens, (ii) antennae each with 7 or 8 segments, basal 3 segments not conspicuously enlarged; (iii) tibia and tarsus clearly divided; claws usually with denticles; (iv) spines grouped in definite bands and clusters; (v) anal ring with 6 long setae; (vi) thoracic spiracles each without atrial disc pores; and (vii) disc pores of quadrilocular type only.

Comments: Worldwide, 23 species are included in Orthezia at present (García Morales et al. 2016); only O. urticae (Linnaeus) is known from Iran (Kaussari 1957).

Notes

Published as part of Moghaddam, Masumeh & Watson, Gillian W., 2024, The Scale Insects Of Iran (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) Part 3 The Soft Scales (Coccidae) And Other Families, pp. 1-202 in Zootaxa 5542 (1) on page 173, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5542.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14385386

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bosc d'Antic
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Ortheziidae
Genus
Orthezia
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Bosc d'Antic, L. A. G. (1784) Description de l' Orthezia characias. Journal de Physique, 1, 173.
  • MacGillivray, A. D. (1921) The Coccidae. Tables for the Identification of the Subfamilies and Some of the More Important Genera and Species, together with Discussions. Scarab, Urbana, Illinois, 502 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8556
  • Garcia Morales M., Denno B. D., Miller D. R., Miller G. L., Ben-Dov Y. & Hardy N. B. (2016) ScaleNet: a literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics. Database. Available from: http: // scalenet. info (accessed 31 January 2024) https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / database / bav 118
  • Kaussari, M. (1957) La deuxieme liste des cochenilles de l'Iran. Ministere de l'Agriculture, Entomologie et Phytopathologie Appliquees, Publication du Departement General de la Protection Plantes. Tehran, 16 - 17, 1 - 3.