Dysmicoccus carens Williams, 1970

Zarkani, Agustin, Ercan, Cansu, Apriyanto, Dwinardi & Kaydan, Mehmet Bora, 2023, Studies on mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Indonesia, with description of a new species and three new country records, Zootaxa 5228 (2), pp. 157-172 : 161

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5228.2.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10555362

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scientific name

Dysmicoccus carens Williams
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Material examined. INDONESIA, Sumatra I., Bengkulu Province, Seluma district, Sukaraja, on Psophocarpus tetragonolobus L. ( Fabaceae ), 10 m a.s.l., 03°59′07″ S, 102°25′37″ E, 15.vi.2018, coll. A. Zarkani (AZ82˗83), 3 ♀♀.

Comments. Dysmicoccus carens is a new country record for Indonesia and this is the first report of it feeding on P. tetragonolobus . The species had been recorded previously on species of Poaceae only, by Williams (2004).

Williams, D. J. (2004) Mealybugs of southern Asia. The Natural History Museum, London. Southdene SDN BHD, Kuala Lumpur, 896 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pseudococcidae

Genus

Dysmicoccus