Mollicoccus guadalcanalanus Williams, 1960 Figs 1d, 2

Material.

K 917, Indonesia, New Guinea, Manokwari, forest near the airport, on leaves of undetermined dicotyledonous herb, 8.XI. 2011, I.A. Gavrilov-Zimin.

New data.

2n = 10; bisexual reproduction with a Lecanoid heterochromatinization in male embryos; eggs are laid in loose ovisac at stage of anatrepsis suggesting incomplete ovoviviparity. Female reproductive system is similar in general details to that of Geococcus satellitum (Fig. 2).

Comments.

These are the first cytogenetic and reproductive data for monotypic Australasian genus Mollicoccus Williams, 1960. The diploid number 10 is considered a modal chromosome number for the family Pseudococcidae as a whole (Nur 1980, Gavrilov 2007, Gavrilov-Zimin et al. 2015).