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Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti 1866
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia- 741252, West Bengal, India. AICR Project on Medicinal & Aromatic Plants and Betelvine, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Kalyani, Nadia- 741235, West Bengal, India.
Description
Genus Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti, 1866
Type species. Coccus vitis Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation.
Generic diagnosis (adult female). The genus Pulvinaria is here treated as sensu lato following Hodgson (1994), with the following diagnostic characters: a white ovisac secreted from under the female’s body; several types of ventral tubular ducts present in a submarginal band and/or in the medial area of the body; a few dorsal tubular ducts present or absent; and each leg with a tibio-tarsal articulatory sclerosis and free articulation.
Notes
Published as part of Talukder, Bipradeb & Das, Bijan Kumar, 2021, Description of a new soft scale insect of the genus Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from India, pp. 434-442 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4595469
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Targioni Tozzetti
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Coccidae
- Genus
- Pulvinaria
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pulvinaria Tozzetti, 1866 sec. Talukder & Das, 2021
References
- Targioni Tozzetti, A. (1866) Come certe cocciniglie sieno cagione di alcune melate delle piante, e di alcune ruggini; e come la cocciniglia del fico dia in abbondanza una specie di cera. Atti della Reale Accademia economica-agraria dei Georgofili di Firenze, Nuova Serie, 13, 115 - 146.
- Hodgson, C. J. (1994) The Scale Insect Family Coccidae: An Identification Manual to Genera. CAB International Wallingford, 639 pp.