Valid Names Results
Heliococcus sulcii Goux, 1934 (Pseudococcidae: Heliococcus)Nomenclatural History
- Heliococcus sulcii Goux 1934b: 167. Type data: FRANCE: Rhone, Courzieu, on Genista pilosa. Syntypes, female, by subsequent designation Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Heliococcus cinereus Goux 1934b: 164. Type data: FRANCE: Corsica, Bastia, on probably Helianthemum. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; junior synonym (discovered by DanzigGa2014, 544). Illustr.
- Heliococcus caucasicus Borchsenius 1949: 279. Type data: ARMENIA: near Ayrum Station, on Artemisia sp.; 6/10/1947, collected N.S. Borchsenius, . Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by Danzig2007a, 602).
- Heliococcus tesquorum Borchsenius 1949: 284. Type data: KAZAKHSTAN: Aktyubinskaya Region, Alga, on Artemisia sp.; 8/7/1936, collected by N.S. Borchsenius. Lectotype, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by Danzig2007a, ).
- Heliococcus marginalis Goux 1953: 104. Type data: FRANCE: Marseille, Marseilleveyre, under a stone. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; junior synonym (discovered by Danzig2007a, 602).
- Heliococcus artemisiae Ter-Grigorian 1967a: 134. Type data: ARMENIA: Erevan, on Artemisia fragrans. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by Danzig2007a, 602).
- Heliococcus sulci Goux, 1934; Bazarov 1974a: 640. emendation that is unjustified
- Heliococcus caucasicu Borchsenius, 1949; Ben-Dov 1994: 178. misspelling of species epithet
- Heliococcus sulci; Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin 2014: 544. subsequent use
Common Names
- Sulc's mealybug
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 12 | Genera: 19
- Amaranthaceae
- Camphorosma | Danzig2007a
- Camphorosma monspeliaca | Bazaro1974a BenDov1994 Danzig1977a | (= Camphorosma lessingii)
- Asteraceae
- Achillea millefolium | BatsanKaKi2017
- Artemisia | BenDov1994 Borchs1949 Danzig2007a
- Artemisia fragrans | Bazaro1974a BenDov1994 TerGri1967a TerGri1973
- Artemisia nitrosa | Bazaro1974a BenDov1994 Borchs1949
- Hieracium | BugajNJuKa2021
- Sonchus | WuJiTa1996a
- Berberidaceae
- Berberis | JaposhBaKi2020
- Berberis soulieana | JaposhBaKi2020
- Caryophyllaceae
- Dianthus | BenDov1994 Terezn1975
- Cistaceae
- Helianthemum | BenDov1994 Goux1934b
- Euphorbiaceae
- Euphorbia seguieriana | BenDov1994 Terezn1975
- Euphorbia stepposa | BenDov1994 Terezn1975
- Fabaceae
- Genista pilosa | BenDov1994 Goux1934b
- Trifolium repens | BenDov1994 Terezn1975
- Lamiaceae
- Lagochilus | BenDov1994 Mateso1968
- Marrubium | KaydanKiKo2005
- Thymus praecox | BenDov1994 KozarOrKo1977
- Thymus pulegioides | BenDov1994 KozarDr1991 | ssp. pannonicus (= Thymus marschallianus)
- Orobanchaceae
- Rehmannia glutinosa | WuJiTa1996a
- Plantaginaceae
- Veronica | Danzig2007a
- Rosaceae
- Potentilla incana | BenDov1994 KozarOrKo1977 | (= Potentilla arenaria)
- Rubus | WuJiTa1996a
- Solanaceae
- Solanum septemlobum | WuJiTa1996a
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 13
- Armenia | BenDov1994 Borchs1949 Danzig2007a TerGri1967a TerGri1973
- China
- Nei Monggol (=Inner Mongolia) | WuJiTa1996a
- Ningxia (=Ningsia) | WuJiTa1996a
- Shanxi (=Shansi) | WuJiTa1996a Xie1998
- Corsica | BenDov1994 Foldi2001 Goux1934b
- France | BenDov1994 Foldi2001 Goux1934b Goux1953
- Georgia (Republic of) | BatsanKaKi2017
- Germany | BenDov1994 Foldi2001 KosztaKo1988F
- Hungary | BenDov1994 KozarDr1991 KozarKiSa2004 KozarOrKo1977
- Italy | BenDov1994 KozarTrPe1984 LongoMaPe1995 Marott1987a
- Kazakhstan | BenDov1994 Borchs1949 Danzig2007a
- Mongolia | BenDov1994 Danzig1977a
- Poland | GolanLaJa2001 Lagows1996
- Turkey | KaydanKiKo2005 KaydanUlEr2007
- Ukraine | BenDov1994 Borchs1949
Keys
- DanzigGa2014: pp.479-486 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic Heliococcus species]
- Danzig2007a: pp.569-571 ( Adult (F) ) [Heliococcus species of Palearctic Region]
- Tang1992: pp.460 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic & Oriental regions]
- KosztaKo1988F: pp.100 ( Adult (F) ) [Central Europe]
- Terezn1975: pp.182 ( Adult (F) ) [Ukraine & Palaearctic region]
- Bazaro1974: pp.350-351 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic region]
- TerGri1973: pp.201 ( Adult (F) ) [Armenia]
- Borchs1949: pp.272 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic region]
Remarks
- Systematics: This species is similar to H. salviae, but differs from it in the presence of more numerous large crateriform ducts. (Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin, 2014)
- Biology: Occurring on roots and stems of steppe inhabiting herbaceous plants.Lives on roots of its host plant.Lives on the roots of its host plant.Originally found under a stone.
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Borchsenius (1949) as H. tesquorum and H. caucasicus, Goux (1953) (as H. Marginalis, Ter-Grigorian (1973) (as H. caucasicus, Bazarov (1974a), Tereznikova (1975) and by Danzig (2007a). Kosztarab & Kozár (1988F) listed H. slavonicus as a synonym of this species. Good description and illustration of the adult female of the junior synonym, H. cinereus given by Goux (1934b).
Illustrations
Citations
- BatsanKaKi2017: distribution, host, 263
- Bazaro1974a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 626,630-632,640-641
- BenDov1994: catalog, 104,167,178,187-189
- Borchs1949: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 279-280,283-285
- BugajNJuKa2021: distribution, host, list, 308
- Danzig1977a: distribution, host, 199
- Danzig2007a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 601-602
- DanzigGa2014: description, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 500, 544-547
- Foldi2001: distribution, 303-308
- Foldi2003: distribution, host, 148
- FoldiGe2018: distribution, list, 12
- Gavril2011a: cytogenetics, 380
- GolanLaJa2001: distribution, host, taxonomy, 229-249
- Goux1934b: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 164-170
- Goux1953: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 104-109
- JaposhBaKi2020: distribution, host, 66
- KalandSi2014: distribution,
- KaydanKiKo2005: distribution, host, 87
- KaydanUlEr2007: catalog, distribution, host, 100
- KosztaKo1988F: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 103, 104
- Koteja1974b: distribution, taxonomy, 73
- Kozar1999a: distribution, host, 138
- KozarDr1991: distribution, host, 362
- KozarKiSa2004: distribution, 57
- KozarOrKo1977: distribution, host, 71
- KozarTrPe1984: distribution, host, 4
- LagowsGo2020: distribution, 70
- LagowsKo1996: distribution, host, 31, 33
- Marott1987a: distribution, host, 109
- Mateso1968: distribution, host, 112
- Tang1992: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 461
- Tang1992: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 464-465,485-486,489
- TerGri1967a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 134-137
- TerGri1973: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 208-213
- Terezn1975: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 187, 188
- UlgentErYa2022: distribution, host, S123
- WuJiTa1996a: distribution, host, 291
- Xie1998: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 80-81
- YerlikBaKa2023: distribution, host, illustration, list, 3, 4
