Valid Names Results

Grewiacoccus gregalis Brain, 1918 (Pseudococcidae: Grewiacoccus)

Nomenclatural History

Grewiacoccus gregalis Brain 1918: 108. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Transvaal, Pienaar's River, on Grewia occidentalis. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Malvaceae

Grewia occidentalis | BenDov1994 Brain1918

Geographic Distribution

Countries: 1

South Africa | BenDov1994 Brain1918

Keys

LagowsGoHo2022: pp.5-6 ( Adult (F) ) [Afrotropical mealybugs that lack cerarii]

Remarks

Biology: This species induces finger shaped pouch galls formed on the underside of leaves of the host plant (Brain, 1918).
General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female Brain (1918) and by De Lotto (1958a, 1969).

Illustrations

Citations

Beards1984: distribution, host, life history, taxonomy, 85
BenDov1994: catalog, 175
Brain1918: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 108, 109
DeLott1958a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 82-84
DeLott1969: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 11-13
GullanMiCo2005: structure, taxonomy, 169,213-218
HodgsoMiGu2011: distribution, host, life history, 1
LagowsGoHo2022: key, 6
Millar2002: illustration, 215
WilliaMi1999: life history, taxonomy, 522