Puto superbus Leonardi
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Puto superbus (Leonardi)
Macrocerococcus superbus Leonardi, 1907: 152.
Ceroputo volynicus Nasonov, 1908: 472. Synonymy by Borchsenius, 1949: 296. Ceroputo superbus; Lindinger, 1912: 65. Change of combination.
Phenacoccus seurati Vayssière, 1927: 109. Synonymy by Balachowsky, 1953b: 304. Macrocerococcus tauricus Borchsenius, 1948: 33. Synonymy by Danzig, 1999: 84. Macrocerococcus kiritshenkoi Borchsenius, 1949: 298. Synonymy by Danzig, 1999: 84. Puto tauricus; Tereznikova, 1975a: 240. Change of combination.
Puto superbus; Tereznikova, 1975a: 241. Change of combination.
Macrocerococcus kiritzhenkoi; Tang, 1992: 398. Misspelling of species name. Puto kiritshenkoi; Ben-Dov, 1994: 424. Change of combination.
Puto superbus was described from Tempio, Sardinia, Italy, on unidentified species of grass (Poaceae) in 1907 by G. Leonardi. We have examined specimens from the type series that have identical data as the lectotype and also were mounted from dried specimens included in Chermotheca Italica (Leonardi, 1909). We agree with the illustration of this species given by Marotta and Tranfaglia (1993). We also have examined a wingless adult male from Fürth, Germany, on grass and it possesses eight eyes in addition to the lateral ocelli and one pair of lateral filaments. There is a possibility that P. superbus encompasses more than one species. Marotta and Tranfaglia (1985) discussed the variation in the dorsal tubular ducts in the cerarii but later (Marotta & Tranfaglia, 1993) determined that P. superbus lacked dorsal ducts entirely. Specimens with these ducts were identified as P. tauricus. Danzig (1999) again placed P. tauricus as a junior subjective synonym of P. superbus. A careful analysis of all species in the genus is required to sort out their true identity. For this paper we have studied types of the junior synonyms Puto kiritshenkoi (Borchsenius), Puto tauricus (Borchsenius) and Phenacoccus seurati Vayssière but had insufficient series of specimens to come to definitive conclusions about synonyms.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.207286 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Pseudococcidae
- Genus
- Puto
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Leonardi
- Species
- superbus
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Leonardi, G. (1907) Contribuzione alla conoscenza delle cocciniglie Italiane. Bollettino del Laboratorio del Zoologia generale e agraria, 1, 135 - 169.
- Nasonov, N. V. (1908) Steingelia gorodetskia, nov. gen. et nov. sp. nouveau genre et espece des coccides du groupe Xylococcini. Annuaire du Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 13, 345 - 352.
- Borchsenius, N. S. (1949) [Insects Homoptera. suborders mealybugs and scales (Coccoidea). Family mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). Vol. VII.] (in Russian) Fauna SSSR. Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk SSSR. N. S., 38, 1 - 382.
- Lindinger, L. (1912) Die Schildlause (Coccidae) Europas, Nordafrikas und Vorder-Asiens, einschliesslich der Azoren, der Kanaren und Madeiras. Ulmer, Stuttgart. 388 pp.
- Vayssiere, P. (1927) Sur quelques Coccidae (Hem.) de l'Afrique du Nord. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 6, 107 - 111.
- Balachowsky, A. S. (1953 b) Sur le statut des genres Puto Signoret, Ceroputo Sulc. et Macrocerococcus Leonardi. Mitteilungen der Sweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 26, 301 - 304.
- Borchsenius, N. S. (1948) [Review of Palaearctic soft scales of the genus Macrocerococcus Leon. (Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae).] (in Russian) Entomologicheskoe Obozrenye, 30, 31 - 39.
- Danzig, E. M. (1999) [Mealybugs of the genus Puto Signoret (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae) from Russia and adjacent countries.] (in Russian) Entomologicheskoye Obozrenie, 78, 79 - 91.
- Tereznikova, E. M. (1975 a) Coccids, Issue 18, Scale insects, gigantic scales and mealybugs, Ortheziidae, Margarodidae, Pseudococcidae. Fauna Ukraini, 20, 295 pp.
- Tang, F. D. (1992) The Pseudococcidae of China (Homoptera: Coccinea of Insects). Beijing, Chinese Agricultural Science Technology Press, 767 pp.
- Ben-Dov, Y. (1994) A Systematic Catalogue of the Mealybugs of the World (Insecta: Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae and Putoidae) with Data on Geographical Distribution, Host Plants, Biology and Economic Importance. Intercept Ltd, Andover, U. K., 686 pp.
- Leonardi, G. (1909) Chermotheca Italica Continens Exsiccata, In Situ, Coccidarum Plantis Precipue Cultis, In Italia Occurrentibus Obnoxiarum. Cocciniglie Raccolte in Italia. Vesuviano, Portici, Fascicolo V, (106) 125 pp.
- Marotta, S. & Tranfaglia, A. (1993) Le specie del genere Puto Signoret (Homoptera Coccoidea Pseudococcidae) del'Europa centrale e del bacino del Mediterraneo. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria ' Filippo Silvestri', Portici, 48, 171 - 205.
- Marotta, S. & Tranfaglia, A. (1985) Ridescrizione di Macrocerococcus superbus Leonardi e considerazioni sulla sua posizione generica, con note su Puto Signoret. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria ' Filippo Silvestri', Portici, 42, 212 - 219.