Valid Names Results

Modicicoccus Bhatti & Gullan, 1990 (Monophlebidae)

Nomenclatural History

• Modicicoccus Bhatti & Gullan 1990: 892. Type species: Modicicoccus monticolus Bhatti & Gullan by original designation . accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: The adult females of species in this genus are distinguished in presence of pores in atrium of the thoracic and abdominal spiracles (Bhatti & Gullan, 1990). Gavrilov-Zimin, 2018, resurrected the tribe Momophlebulini within the family Margarodidae to place the genus Modicicoccus in relation to other genera that he felt belonged in a subfamily of Monophlebinae (Gullania, Insulococcus, Melaleucococcus, Modicicoccus, Monophlebidus, Nodulicoccus, Peengea, Perissopneumon and Tessarobelus)
• General Remarks: Description and definition by Bhatti & Gullan (1990).

Keys

• Gavril2018: pp.150 ( Adult (F) ) [Genera of Monophlebulini]
• Foldi1998a: pp.318-319 ( Adult (F) ) [Genera of the Monophlebulini: Monophlebinae]
• BhattiGu1990: pp.881 ( Adult (F) ) [Monophlebulini of the Monophlebinae, Margarodidae]

Associated References

• BenDov2005a: catalog, taxonomy, pp. 240
• BhattiGu1990: description, taxonomy, pp. 892-893
• Foldi2001a: taxonomy, pp. 209
• Gavril2018: key, morphology, taxonomy, pp. 148-152

4 Species