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Mirococcus vallis Gavrilov-Zimin & Kurochkin, 2016 (Pseudococcidae: Mirococcus)

Mirococcus vallis Gavrilov-Zimin & Kurochkin 2016: 152. Type data: RUSSIA: Prov., Neftegorsk Distr., 3.4 km SSW Verkhnyaya Domashka Vill., 52°51´57.4´´N 50°38´45´´E, poor motley grass + Festuca valesiaca + Stipa lessingiana steppe, under the leaf sheathes of Festuca valesiaca, 21.VII.2010, A.S. Kurochkin. . Holotype, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: 2 females with the same collecting data and one other female (K 1290) with the same data, but collected 12.VII.2010. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Mirococcus vallis seems to be most similar with Chinese endemic M. leymicolus Tang, 1992 and with M. longiventris Borchsenius, 1949, known from Armenia and Uzbekistan. However, both of these species possess tubular ducts of only one (narrow) type, whereas M. vallis sp. nov. has two types of ducts (narrow and wide).
Structure: Female. Body elongate oval, with almost parallel sides, up to 3 mm long, orange in life. Antennae 6-segmented. Legs small in comparison with body, with thin segments; hind coxae with translucent pores; claw with very small denticle. Anal apparatus simplified, with reduced number of pores and spinulae and with six shortened setae. Both pairs of ostioles present.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Gavrilov-Zimin & Kurochkin (2016)