Valid Names Results

Heliococcus glacialis (Newstead, 1900) (Pseudococcidae: Heliococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Dactylopius glacialis Newstead 1900: 248. Type data: ITALY: Courmayeur, associated with ants. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Brooke1978,244). Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
• Heliococcus cydoniae Borchsenius 1937: 49. Type data: AZERBAIJAN: on Cydonia sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by Danzig1986a, 21).
• Heliococcus glacialis (Newstead, 1900); Brookes 1978: 244. change of combination
• Heliococcus glacilis (Newstead, 1900); Tang 1992: 458. misspelling of species epithet

Common Names

• Borchsenius-Quince mealybug KosztaKo1988F
• quince mealybug

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 4 | Genera: 9

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• DanzigGa2014: pp.479-486 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic Heliococcus species]
• Danzig2007a: pp.569-571 ( Adult (F) ) [Heliococcus species of Palearctic region]
• Tang1992: pp.458, 460 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic & Oriental regions]
• KosztaKo1988F: pp.99 ( Adult (F) ) [Central Europe]
• Terezn1975: pp.182 ( Adult (F) ) [Ukraine & Palaearctic region]
• Bazaro1974: pp.349 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic region]
• TerGri1973: pp.200 ( Adult (F) ) [Armenia]
• Borchs1949: pp.272 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic region]

Remarks

• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Ter-Grigorian (1973), Bazarov (1974a), Tereznikova (1975) (all as H. cydoniae), Brookes (1978) and Danzig (2007a). Description of the adult female by Borchsenius (1949). Borchsenius (1949) again referred to Heliococcus cydoniae as a new species, although his 1937 description is valid.

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