Valid Names Results
Iberococcus andalusicus Gómez-Menor Ortega, 1928 (Pseudococcidae: Iberococcus)Nomenclatural History
- Iberococcus andalusicus Gómez-Menor Ortega 1928: 357. Type data: SPAIN: Almeria, Roquetas del Mar, on Statice sp.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Matile1984,294). Type depository: Madrid: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain; accepted valid name Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 2
- Plumbaginaceae
- Limonium cymuliferum | GomezM1965 | (= Statice gummifera)
- Limonium gummiferum | BenDov1994 Matile1984
- Limonium ramosissimum | BenDov1994 Matile1984
- Statice | BenDov1994 GomezM1928 Martin1985
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
Keys
- SzitaFeBe2017: pp.472 ( Adult (F) ) [Iberococcus species]
Remarks
- Systematics: Originally described in the Eriococcidae, this species was transferred to the Pseudococcidae (Matile-Ferrero, 1984)
- Structure: Adult female body broadly oval, up to 2 mm long. Antennae 8-segmented. Legs short and thick; hind coxae, femurs and tibiae with numerous translucent pores. Circulus absent. Multilocular pores forming transverse rows on abdominal sternites and occasionally present on ventral side of cephalothorax. (Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin, 2015) Matile-Ferrero (1984) noted the present of large trilocular pores in all nymphal stages. Gomez-Menor Ortega (1928) described males.
- General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Matile-Ferrero (1984).
Illustrations
Citations
- BenDov1994: catalog, 202
- DanzigGa2015: diagnosis, distribution, 366-368
- GomezM1928: description, taxonomy,
- GomezM1937: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 376-381
- GomezM1968: distribution, host, 557
- Martin1985: distribution, host, taxonomy, 94
- Matile1984: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 292-294
- SzitaFeBe2017: key, 472
