Peliococcus zillae (Hall, 1926)

Evans, Gregory A. & Abd-Rabou, Shaaban, 2023, The mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) of Egypt, Insecta Mundi 2023 (999), pp. 1-83 : 22

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10832115

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scientific name

Peliococcus zillae (Hall, 1926)
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( Figure 28 View Figure 28 , after Ezzat 1960e)

Taxonomy. Phenacoccus zillae Hall 1926b: 5 . Type data. EGYPT: Fayed (Suez), on Zilla spinosa ; Hosny 1939: 3.

Hosts in Egypt. Zilla spinosa ( Hall 1926b; Hosny 1939; Ezzat 1960d).

Distribution in Egypt. Sallum, Fayed, near Suez in 1925 (Hall 1926; Ezza, 1960d), Helwan Desert ( Hosny 1939).

Remarks. Ezzat (1960d) provided a good illustration and re-description of the species. It has also been recorded in Tajkistan and Turkmenistan and on Acanthaceae : Avicennia marina ; Asteraceae : Centaurea ; Fabaceae : Glycyrrhiza ; Rutaceae : Haplophyllum ; and Zygophyllaceae : Zygophyllum . Danzig (2001) and Danzig and Gavrilov-Zimin (2014) reviewed the Palearctic species of this genus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pseudococcidae

Genus

Peliococcus

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