Coccus oogenes Anderson
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930010023475 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D01C038-FE09-FF90-FF81-B473FE07FE83 |
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Felipe |
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Coccus oogenes Anderson |
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Coccus oogenes Anderson, 1787g: 2 ; 1787e: 4; 1788b: 25; Signoret: 1877: 621; Fernald: 1903: 326.
This species was ®rst described in letter No. 3 ( Anderson, 1787a: 4), on Phyllanthus emblica View in CoL as being`of a purplish red colour and surrounded with a silky covering, of so loose a texture, that the threads of which are as ®ne as those of the smallest spiders web, may be drawn out to the length of several inches before they break’. Anderson’s illustration of the adult female is shown in ®gure 6. His ®gure 7, next to it, refers to a caterpillar enclosed in the silky covering. Other host plants mentioned by Anderson (1787a: 7, 8) (letter No. 5) are Parietaria indica View in CoL and Menispermum cordifolium View in CoL .
Letter No. 5, printed later ( Anderson, 1788b: 5 ±8), diOEers considerably from the ®rst version. Anderson discussed ®gure 12 as a possible adult male with two procumbent wings but this ®gure is discussed for the ®rst time in the original letter No. 9 ( Anderson, 1787c: 3) as possessing two milk white hairs as long as the body.
The host plant Parietaria sp. listed in the original letter No. 10 ( Anderson, 1787d: 1) is altered to Euphorbia hirta in the later version of the letter ( Anderson, 1788b: 14). In his 12th letter, Anderson (1787f: 1) added the host plant Malva arborea . This name was altered to Hibiscus populneus in the later version of the 14
at of by same letter ( Anderson, 1788b: 22). The name Coccus Oogenes was ®rst applied to this insect by Anderson (1787e: 4), his 11th letter.
It is quite evident that Coccus oogenes was validly described and that the description refers to a mealybug of the family Pseudococcidae . The discussion of the waxy covering suggests that the species could be Nipaecoccus viridis (Newstead) , described from India, but in the absence of any direct evidence, the species should retain the current name of Coccus oogenes .
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