Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti, 1866

Talukder, Bipradeb & Das, Bijan Kumar, 2021, Description of a new soft scale insect of the genus Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from India, Zootaxa 4941 (3), pp. 434-442 : 435

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.8
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B9D643B7-7719-4784-94E6-A156A1A43806
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4595494
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scientific name	Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti, 1866
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Genus Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti, 1866 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Coccus vitis Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL , by original designation.

Generic diagnosis (adult female). The genus Pulvinaria View in CoL is here treated as sensu lato following Hodgson (1994), with the following diagnostic characters: a white ovisac secreted from under the female’s body; several types of ventral tubular ducts present in a submarginal band and/or in the medial area of the body; a few dorsal tubular ducts present or absent; and each leg with a tibio-tarsal articulatory sclerosis and free articulation.