Pulvinaria camelicola Signoret 1873

Tanaka, Hirotaka & Kamitani, Satoshi, 2022, The identities of Pulvinaria camelicola Signoret 1873, stat. nov., and the related species, Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood 1870) (Hemiptera: Coccidae) in Japan, Zootaxa 5115 (3), pp. 438-450 : 439-440

Pulvinaria camelicola Signoret 1873 , stat. rev.

( Fig. 1 ; Table 1 )

[Japanese common name: Inugaya-wata-kaigaramushi]

Pulvinaria camelicola Signoret 1873: 32 .

Coccus camelliae Westwood 1876: 68 , 69.

Coccus euphorbiae Westwood 1876: 68 , 69.

Pulvinaria linearis Targioni Tozzetti 1884: 398 .

Pulvinaria brassiae Cockerell 1895: 135 .

Pulvinaria okitsuensis Kuwana 1914: 5 ; Takahashi 1956: 27 (in part), syn. nov.

Pulvinaria theae Froggatt 1915: 418 .

Chloropulvinaria floccifera ( Westwood 1870) ; Borchsenius 1952: 300; Hodgson 1994: 175; Kosztarab 1996: 334; Granara de Willink 1999: 78.

Pulvinaria torreyae Takahashi 1956: 29 ; Kawai 1972: 17; Kawai 1980: 151; Kawai 2003: 646, 825, 958, syn. nov.

Pulvinaria floccifera ( Westwood 1870) ; Ezzat and Hussein 1969: 417; Williams and Kosztarab 1972: 135; Hamon and Williams 1984: 96; Qin and Gullan 1992: 128; Hodgson and Henderson 2000: 212 (misidentifications).

Material examined. JAPAN: Shizuoka Prefecture, Okitsu, on 柑ffi [ Citrus sp. ], no date or collector indicated, 2 adult females mounted on 1 slide (these are 2 of the syntypes of P. okitsuensis, NIPP ); Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama, on Torreya , 27.iv.1953, coll. K. Sato, 1 adult female (1 of the syntypes of P. torreyae, SEHU ); Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama-shi, on Camellia sp. , 21.v.1953. coll. K. Sato, 1 adult female ( SEHU); Yamaguchi Prefecture, Hagi-shi, on Citrus sp. , 25.v.1954, coll. T. Yakushiji, 6 adult females mounted on two slides ( SEHU); Tokyo, Tachikawa-shi, Fujimi-cho, on Cephalotaxus harringtonia , 15.iv.1972, coll. S. Kawai, 6 adult females mounted on 2 slides ( KTUA); Chiba Prefecture, Matsudo-shi, Matsudo, Chiba University, on Pittosporum tobira , 30.iv.1999, coll. H. Tanaka, 8 adult females mounted singly (4 ELKU, 4 EUMJ); Chiba Prefecture, Matsudo-shi, Matsudo, Chiba University, on Cephalotaxus harringtonia , 21.v.2000, coll. H. Tanaka, 3 adult females mounted singly (2 ELKU, 1 EUMJ); Tokyo, Fuchu-shi, on Taxus cuspidata , 20.iv.2002, coll. H. Tanaka, 1 adult female ( EUMJ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Pulvinaria camelicola Signoret, 1873 stat. rev., adult female collected in Tokyo in 1972. ANT, antenna; AP, anal plate; DA, dermal areolations; DMD, dorsal microduct; DS, dorsal seta; DT, dorsal tubercle; DTD, dorsal tubular duct; LG, leg; MP, multilocular pore; MS, marginal setae; POP, preopercular pores; SDP, spiracular disc pore; SSP, stigmatic spines; VMD, ventral microduct; VTD, ventral tubular ducts of types I–III. Scale bars: 200 µm for ANT, LG; 100 µm for AP and DA; 50 µm for SSP and MS; 10 µm for others.