Komodesia, Gavrilov-Zimin, Ilya A., 2016

Gavrilov-Zimin, Ilya A., 2016, Cytogenetic and taxonomic studies of some legless mealybugs (Homoptera, Coccinea, Pseudococcidae), CompCytogen 4, pp. 587-601 : 593-594

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Pseudococcidae

Genus Komodesia gen. n.

Type species.

Komodesia circuliplurima sp. n.

Description.

Female. Body elongate oval, sclerotized in mature adult females. Three posterior abdominal segments with lateral lobes. Antennae 2-segmented. Legs totally absent. Clypeolabral shield with anterior projection. Vulva caudally directed. Anal apparatus located inside a short anal tube. Both pairs of ostioles absent. Circuli 5 in number, small, round, all of about the same size. Multilocular pores absent. Trilocular pores present. Simple discoidal pores sparsely scattered over all body surface. Microtubular ducts ("duct like pores") very short, button shaped, forming two sym metrical groups on venter from posterior spiracles to abdominal sternite VI. Tubular ducts (all with small collars) present. Dorsal and ventral surface of body covered by minute flagellate setae.

Comments.

The new monotypic genus differs from all other genera of the tribe Serrolecaniini (and all legless mealybugs) in the presence of very short, button-shaped microtubular ducts in groups behind posterior spiracles and in numerous circuli (5 in number).

Etymology.

The generic name is after the name of Komodo Island (and appropriate National Park) in vicinity of which the new genus was collected (Fig. 5). Gender feminine.