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Lecanopsis radicumgraminis (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1834) (Coccidae: Lecanopsis)

Coccus radicum-graminis Boyer de Fonscolombe 1834: 212. Type data: FRANCE: southern France, Saint-Canadet, on Festuca caespitosa.. Syntypes, female, accepted valid name Notes: Type material probably lost; D. Matile-Ferrero, 1989, personal communication to Yair Ben-Dov.
Coccus fonscolombei Gistel 1848. junior synonym (discovered by Lindin1937, 187).
Lecanopsis radicum graminis (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1834); Signoret 1874: 96. change of combination
Lecanopsis radicumgraminis; (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1834); Ben-Dov 1993: 159. emendation that is justified

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: The author was incorrectly cited, in most pre-2000 publications, as "Fonscolombe". The correct name is "Boyer de Fonscolombe".
Biology: Found on roots of the host plant.
General Remarks: Currently, it is accepted as a soft scale species in the genus Lecanopsis (Ben-Dov, 1993). However, earlier authors assigned it other families, e.g. in Porphyrophora of the Margarodidae (Signoret, 1876a), and Fonscolombia in the Pseudococcidae (Fernald, 1903b). However, in August 1877, Lichtenstein stated that his graminis was not the same taxon as Coccus (now Fonscolombia) radicumgraminis Fonscolombe, 1834. (Danzig, ICZN Opinion 1654)