Published November 21, 2022 | Version v1
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Spilococcus Ferris 1950

  • 1. Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Tarumi 3 - 5 - 7, Matsuyama, Ehime 790 - 8566, Japan. & The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6 - 10 - 1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812 - 8581 Japan.
  • 2. Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Motooka 744, Fukuoka, 819 - 0395 Japan. kamitani @ agr. kyushu-u. ac. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0870 - 5163

Description

Key to adult females of Spilococcus species found in South Korea

(adapted from Kwon et al. 2003)

1(0) Multilocular pores present on dorsum, grouped on head and thoracic margins. On Miscanthus sp. grass.............................................................................. Spilococcus jejuensis Kwon, Danzig & Park 2003

- Multilocular pores absent from dorsum on head and thoracic margins. On trees.................................... 2

2(1) Dorsal oral rim ducts forming transverse rows across all body segments. Circulus absent.. Spilococcus flavidus (Kanda 1935)

- Dorsal oral rim ducts scattered on medial and marginal areas of head, thorax and abdominal segments. Circulus present........................................................................ Spilococcus pacificus (Borchsenius 1949)

Notes

Published as part of Tanaka, Hirotaka & Kamitani, Satoshi, 2022, Review ofthegenus CrisicoccusFerris (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) in Japan with description of a new species, and the identity of a South Korean mealybug misidentified as Crisicoccus matsumotoi (Shiraiwa 1935), pp. 555-572 in Zootaxa 5209 (5) on page 570, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5209.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7340959

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Ferris
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Pseudococcidae
Genus
Spilococcus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Spilococcus Ferris, 1950 sec. Tanaka & Kamitani, 2022

References

  • Kwon, G. M., Danzig, E. & Park, K. T. (2003) Taxonomic notes of the family Pseudococcidae (Sternorrhyncha) in Korea. II. Tribe Pseudococcini. Insecta Koreana, 20 (3 / 4), 393 - 424.
  • Kanda, S. (1935) Descriptions of new Pseudococcus (Coccidae) from Japan]. Kontyu, 9, 83 - 90. [in Japanese]
  • Borchsenius, N. S. (1949) [Insects Homoptera. suborders mealybugs and scales (Coccoidea). Family mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). Vol. VII.]. Fauna SSSR. Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk SSSR, New Series, 38, 1 - 382. [in Russian]