Prococcus acutissimus ( Green, 1896 )

Cao, Tong, Watson, Gillian W., Hodgson, Chris J., Jing, Qi & Feng, Ji-Nian, 2022, The genera Coccus and Prococcus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) in China with two new combinations and descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 5087 (1), pp. 112-128 : 118-119

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5087.1.5

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5819784

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scientific name

Prococcus acutissimus ( Green, 1896 )
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Material examined. CHINA, Yunnan Province: Menglun , 19.v.2012, coll. Wang Fang, 1 slide, 1 adult ♀ ; Tengchong , 6.v.2012, coll. Wang Fang, 1 slide, 2 adult ♀♀ ; Mengla , 21.v.2012, on Cycas revoluta (Cycadaceae), coll. Wang Fang, 1 slide, 1 adult ♀ .

Diagnosis (based on observed specimens, and descriptions and illustrations by Hamon & Williams (1984) and Tang (1991)). Adult female body very elongate and extremely narrow, 2.5–5.5 mm long, 1.0–2.0 mm wide, fresh insects creamy-white to yellowish green, older females reddish brown to black. Dorsum with derm strongly sclerotized in older females, with small round or oval clear areas (areolations) present; dorsal setae robust, spine like and slightly tapering with pointed or bluntly rounded apices; tubular ducts absent; submarginal tubercles numbering 8– 19 around dorsum; preopercular pores numbering 8–13, situated anterior to anal plates; anal plates each triangular, together quadrate, posterolateral margin slightly longer than anterolateral margin, bearing 1 subdiscal seta, 3 apical setae; anogenital fold with 2 pairs of anterior margin setae, and 2 pairs of lateral marginal setae. Margin with marginal setae slender with pointed apices; each stigmatic cleft containing 3 spines, median spine 3–4 times as long as a lateral spine, both cylindrical with bluntly rounded apices. Venter with antennae reduced, each with 3 segments, occasionally 5; 2 pairs of inter-antennal setae present; submarginal setae present; long pregenital setae numbering 3 pairs; legs reduced, tibio-tarsal articulations fused; claw digitules unequal, with 1 thick and 1 thin; multilocular disc pores each primarily with 7 loculi, occasionally with 5–8 loculi, present around genital area and on preceding 2 or 3 abdominal segments; and ventral tubular ducts absent.

Host plants. Recorded from members of 42 genera belonging to 29 families (García-Morales et al. 2016). For Chinese records, Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae) , Syzygium jambos (Myrtaceae) ( Tang 1991) and Cycas revoluta (Cycadaceae) .

Distribution. Recorded from all zoogeographical regions (García-Morales et al. 2016), including 12 provinces and regions in China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hong Kong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan and Zhejiang).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Coccidae

Genus

Prococcus

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