Ovaticoccus mackenziei Miller, 1992

Miller, Douglass R. & Stocks, Ian C., 2022, New genera and species of felt scales (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Eriococcidae), with descriptions of new species and immature instars of described species, Zootaxa 5221 (1), pp. 1-213 : 139

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5221.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BECF280B-99E0-4DE3-874B-8585C1E4602E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7441515
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF318791-88D6-8194-FF12-FE1901641E47
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ovaticoccus mackenziei Miller
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Ovaticoccus mackenziei Miller View in CoL

Ovaticoccus mackenziei Miller View in CoL in Miller and McKenzie 1967: 515–517.

Material examined: not previously reported: California: Imperial Co.: Holtville , II-11-1972, on Ephedra sp. , R.A. Flock (1 ad. ♀ on 1 slide) CDFA . San Bernardino Co.: Morongo Valley , V-11-1971, on Ephedra sp. , Dixon and Hunter (4 ad. ♀♀ on 4 slides) CDFA .

Etymology: This species was named in honor of the late Howard L. McKenzie, the first author’s major professor and well-known coccidologist.

The adult female and second-instar female (as “first or second instar”) were described by Miller and McKenzie (1967) and information from that paper is not repeated here.