Trabutina mannipara (Hemprich & Ehrenberg)

MOGHADDAM, MASUMEH & WATSON, GILLIAN W., 2022, The Scale Insects Of Iran (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) Part 2 The Mealybugs (Pseudococcidae And Rhizoecidae) And Putoidae, Zootaxa 5126 (1), pp. 1-169 : 132

Trabutina mannipara (Hemprich & Ehrenberg)

( Fig. 60 , Plate 3 C , distribution map Fig. 70 K )

Coccus manniparus Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1829: 1. Trabutina leonardii Sivestri in Leonardi, 1920: 451. Trabutina palestina Bodenheimer, 1927: 179 . Trabutina bogdanovikatjkovi Borchsenius, 1941: 131 .

Field characteristics: Body of live adult female oval, 1.2‒5.2 mm long, enveloped in a rubbery brown secreted covering. Young females form an oval ovisac with a lengthwise band of white filamentous wax; older females have ball-shaped ovisacs, with the edges closed; the lengthwise strip of white wax disappears with time ( Ben-Dov 1988; Danzig & Miller 1996).

Microscopic diagnosis: Slide-mounted adult female broadly oval to rotund. Anal lobes not developed. Antennae each with 6 or 7 segments. Legs well developed; hind coxa enlarged, with translucent pores; claw digitules setose; claw without a denticle; tarsal digitules pointed at tip and longer than claw. Anal cerarii sometimes indistinguishable from other marginal setal clusters; other cerarii absent. Circulus absent. Anterior and posterior ostioles present. Anal ring incomplete, U-shaped, with 2 interrupted rows of pores and 6 setae.

Dorsum with slender pointed setae, these becoming progressively shorter anteriorly; anal ring surrounded by 14−25 long setae. Multilocular disc pores, if present, sometimes each with as few as 5 loculi; normally absent, but occasionally with up to 8 pores on abdominal segments V, VI, or VII. Trilocular pores few on head, but numerous on abdomen, near ostioles, and around anal ring. Discoidal pores, each with a granular centre surrounded by a dark rim, of 2 sizes: large pores, each with a thick irregular rim, conspicuous anterior to anal ring; and small pores, sparsely scattered in submarginal areas. Oral collar tubular ducts numerous, of 3 sizes: smallest ducts present on abdominal segments; medium-sized ducts most abundant on posterior of abdomen, also present on thorax and head; and largest ducts most abundant on thorax and head. Medial areas of abdomen and thorax with fewer ducts; ducts completely absent from abdominal segment VIII.

Venter with slender pointed setae. Multilocular disc pores each with 10 loculi, present across most abdominal segments and thorax, scattered on head; dispersed in transverse bands 2 or 3 pores wide on medregion of abdominal segments. Trilocular pores present on all segments, more concentrated around spiracles and in area posterior to vulva. Oral collar ducts of 2 sizes, same as on dorsum, numerous, the larger ducts out-numbering the smaller ducts.

Distribution: Trabutina mannipara has been recorded from 22 countries in the Palaearctic Region including Iran ( García Morales et al. 2016), where it has been found in Esfahan, Khorasan -e shomali, Semnan and Tehran provinces ( Moghaddam 2013b).

Host-plants: The species has been recorded on Tamarix spp. (Tamaricaceae) ( García Morales et al. 2016).

Economic importance: None in Iran.

Natural enemies: None recorded in Iran.

Comments: The accompanying illustration is reproduced from Danzig & Miller (1996), page 13, Fig. I, with kind permission from the authors and the Editor of Israel Journal of Entomology.

Figures

PLATE 3.A. Pseudococcus viburni (Signoret); B. Trabutina crassispinosa Borchsenius; C. Trabutina mannipara (Hemprich & Ehrenberg); D. Trabutina serpentina (Green); E. Vryburgia amaryllidis (Bouché); F. V. amaryllidis damage on Amaryllis sp. (Amaryllidaceae).

FIGURE 60. Adult female of Trabutina mannipara (Hemprich & Ehrenberg).

FIGURE 70. Maps of species distributions in Iran. A. Planococcus vovae (Nasonov); B. Pseudococcus comstocki (Kuwana); C. Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti); D. Pseudococcus viburni (Signoret); E. Rhodania aeluropi Williams & Moghaddam; F. Saccharicoccus sacchari (Cockerell); G. Spilococcus alhagii (Hall); H. Spilococcus mirzayansi (Moghaddam); I. Spilococcus williamsi sp. n.; J. Trabutina crassispinosa Borchsenius; K. Trabutina mannipara (Hemprich & Ehrenberg); L. Trabutina serpentina (Green).