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Bambusaecoccus maolanensis Meng & Xing, 2022 (Coccidae: Bambusaecoccus)

Nomenclatural History

• Bambusaecoccus maolanensis Meng & Xing 2022: 422. Type data: CHINA: Guizhou Prov., Libo County, Yongkang Town (25°28′73″N, 107º94′15″E), on Dendrocalamopsis sp. (Bambusoideae), 8/19/2021, by S, Meng,. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Guiyang: Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China; accepted valid name Notes: Parale_Same collection data as holotype, 8 adult ♀♀, 4 adult ♂♂, mounted singly on slides (GUGC). The slide labels are written in English. Illustr.

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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• Systematics: The adult female is similar to that of Takahashilecanium rotundum, sharing the following character states: (i) stigmatic clefts present; (ii) spiracular disc-pores present in broad bands between margin and spiracles; (iii) preopercular pores present in two groups located laterad to anal plates; (iv) anal ring with four pairs of setae; and (v) pregenital disc pores forming a small group posterior to vulvar opening on each side of the anal cleft. Bambusaecoccus maolanensis can be distinguished from Takahashilecanium by (character states of T. rotundum in brackets): (i) stigmatic clefts each associated with about 20 dorsal stigmatic spines (each cleft containing only 3 stigmatic spines); (ii) ventral tubular ducts present in a small group on each side of genital opening (ventral tubular ducts absent); and (iii) legs and antennae reduced (legs and antennae well developed); and (iv) presence of a group of 10‒15 setae on venter just mesad to each middle and hind leg (absent). (Meng & Xing, 2022a)
• Structure: Body of adult female oval, mildly convex, 2.3‒3.5 mm long, 1.8‒2.3 mm wide; entire dorsum yellowish-brown, mediodorsally with a greyish brown longitudinal ridge, submargin with a quite wide, dark yellowish brown strip, without visible wax except for a small area of white wax near each stigmatic cleft. (Meng & Xing, 2022a) Slide-mounted adult female Body broadly oval. Stigmatic clefts deep and very pronounced, each reniform. Anal cleft approximately 1/4 of body length without sides fused. (Meng & Xing, 2022a) Adult male body yellowish-brown. Genital segments uncinate, about 1/5th total body length; antennae rather short, each approximately half total body length; wing petaliform, about 3/5th total body length. (Meng & Xing, 2022a)
• Biology: Specimens of B. maolanensis were found under carton coverings made by the ant Crematogaster subnuda nigrosubnuda Özdikmen 2010 on stem nodes of bamboo, The ants were feeding on the honeydew eliminated by the scale insects and had built a tent-like carton cover to protect them from predators and parasites. Both female and male scales of various developmental stages were usually found together. (Meng & Xing, 2022a)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustrations in Meng & Xing, 2022a.

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