Idiococcus bambusae Takahashi & Kanda

Wu, San-An & Lu, Yuan, 2012, Notes on the genera and species in the mealybug tribe Serrolecaniini Shinji (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) from China with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3251, pp. 30-46 : 35

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.214482

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6170093

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Idiococcus bambusae Takahashi & Kanda
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Idiococcus bambusae Takahashi & Kanda View in CoL

( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 , 12–15)

Idiococcus bambusae Takahashi & Kanda, 1939:52 View in CoL ; Hendricks & Kosztarab, 1999: 49: Wu, 2001: 46 Serrolecanium maanshanensis Tang & Wu , in Tang, 1983: 3 (nomen nudum)

Idiococcus maanshanensis Tang & Wu , in Tang, 1984: 101; 1984a: 395; 1992: 36; Wang, 2001: 43 (synonymy by Hendricks & Kosztarab, 1999)

Distribution in China. Anhui, Zhejiang.

Host plants. Pleioblastus amarus , Indocalamus migoi .

Material examined: 19ƤƤ, ANHUI: Maanshan city, on Indocalamus migoi , 18 Aug. 1979, Coll. Shi-jun Wu; 3ƤƤ, ANHUI: Maanshan city, on Indocalamus migoi , 9 Feb. 1981, Coll. Shi-jun Wu; 6ƤƤ, ANHUI: Maanshan city, on Indocalamus migoi , 24 Feb. 1983, Coll. Shi-jun Wu; 4 ƤƤ, ZHEJIANG: Mt. Tianmushan, on Indocalamus migoi , 12 Apr. 1999, Coll. San-an Wu; 1Ƥ, ZHEJIANG: Lin’an city, on Pleioblastus amarus , 18 Apr. 1999, Coll. San-an Wu.

Biology. Living in groups on stem of the host beneath leaf sheath.

Remarks. The location of the mouthparts varies among specimens, but is usually present on the mesothoracic sternite between anterior and posterior spiracles. Tang (1984, 1984a) described the anal ring as having pores but no setae, but we found 6 short anal ring setae in teneral females. Hendricks and Kosztarab (1999) mostly examined specimens from Japan (the lectotype is from Japan) and described multilocular disc pores on the abdominal venter, but we could not find them on any of the examined Chinese specimens, even when the body was unsclerotized. Perhaps Idiococcus maanshanensis should be considered to be a valid species, not a synonym of I. bambusae as suggested by Hendricks and Kosztarab (1999).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pseudococcidae

Genus

Idiococcus

Loc

Idiococcus bambusae Takahashi & Kanda

Wu, San-An & Lu, Yuan 2012
2012
Loc

Idiococcus maanshanensis

Wang 2001: 43
2001
Loc

Idiococcus bambusae

Wu 2001: 46
Hendricks 1999: 49
Tang 1983: 3
Takahashi 1939: 52
1939
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