Spilococcus mirzayansi (Moghaddam, 2010) Moghaddam, 2010

Tsai, Ming-Yu & Wu, Wen-Jer, 2011, A new Chorizococcus species (Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae) from Taiwan with transferring of Chorizococcus mirzayansi Moghaddam to genus Spilococcus Ferris, ZooKeys 103, pp. 27-40 : 29

Spilococcus mirzayansi (Moghaddam, 2010) comb. n.

Chorizococcus mirzayansi Moghaddam 2010: 64.

Comments.

According to the descriptions of Chorizococcus mirzayansi , it should not be placed in genus Chorizococcus based on possessing more than 5 pairs of cerarii, a major diagnostic character in distinguishing genus Chorizococcus from genus Spilococcus in Williams’s definition (2004) or it should be included in genus Spilococcus sesu lato proposed by Danzig (1998). A new combination is made here for Chorizococcus mirzayansi as above.