A survey of scale insects in soil samples from Europe (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha) Kaydan, Mehmet Bora Benedicty, Zsuzsanna Konczne Kiss, Balazs Szita, Eva ZooKeys 2016 565 1 28 4SCLC Hambleton Insecta Pseudococcidae Rhizoecus CoL Animalia Rhizoecus pseudocacticans Hemiptera 20 21 Arthropoda species pseudocacticans  Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Rhizoecidae  Material examined. Spain: 1 ♀ - Canary Islands, Tenerife, Masca, 450 m a.s.l., 20.x.2008, leg. Jely Z., soil (PPI: 11938, HNHM: E-2531).  Host plants.  Crassulasp., Kalanchoe tomentosa, Sedumsp. ( Crassulaceae), Aloesp. ( Liliaceae) (  Garciaet al. 2015).   Distribution. United States of America (  Garciaet al. 2015), Spain.  Comment. This species is characterized by the lack of multilocular pores on both the dorsum and venter and in having very few oral collar tubular ducts on the dorsum. This species is similar to Rhizoecus cacticansand Rhizoecus leucosomus, but differs from both in having more analring pores. In addition, this species is also similar to Rhizoecus nakaharaibut differs in having a longer labium. However, these are poor characteristics upon which to base species differences and so a drawing of this species is presented here. Detailed descriptions of the above mentioned species are available in  Kozarand KonczneBenedicty (2007).  Figure 5. Rhizoecus pseudocacticans, Hambleton, original.