Valid Names Results

Kermes sadrii Bodenheimer, 1953 (Kermesidae: Kermes)

Nomenclatural History

• Kermes sadrii Bodenheimer 1953a: 145-147. Type data: TURKEY: Kurkcu, on western slopes of the Anatolian plateau, on Quercus aegilops, by S. Erkilic. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Bet Dagan: Department of Entomology, The Volcani Center, Israel; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Kermococcus sadrii (Bodenheimer, 1953); Borchsenius 1960d: 35. change of combination Notes: Ferris, 1921: 157 rejected the Silvestri substitution of Kermococcus for Kermes as not justified under the International Code and considered it a synonym. Borchsenius used Kermococcus as a proper replacement.

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Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Borchs1960d: pp.35 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Kermococcus] Key as: Kermococus sadrii
• Bodenh1953a: pp.141 ( Adult (F) ) [Macroscopic key to the Turkish species of Kermes]

Remarks

• Structure: Adult female ellipsoid, surface smooth. Ground color shining yellowish brown with five black transverse bands, which reach with a narrow, pointed end at the ventral lateral margin and which are interrupted in the median furrow (Bodenheimer, 1953a).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Bodenheimer (1953a).

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