Valid Names Results

Neogreenia lonicera Wu & Nan, 2012 (Qinococcidae: Neogreenia)

Nomenclatural History

• Neogreenia lonicera Wu & Nan 2012: 47. Type data: CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Helan Mountain, Bayan Hot, under the bark of Lonicera microphylla, 7/27/2010, by Nan Nan.. Holotype, female, by monotypy and original designation Type depository: Beijing: Forestry University, Beijing, China; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• ZhengWaZh2024: pp.439 ( Adult (F) ) [species of Neogreenia]
• ZhengWaZh2024: pp.439 ( First instar Second instar (F) Third instar (F) ) [Chinese Neogreenia]

Remarks

• Systematics: The adult female of N. lonicera differs from that of N. osmanthus in having long acute setae on the distal end of each tibia rather than capitate setae; it differs from N. sophorica in having three denticles on each claw (only two on N. sophorica) and the disc pores on either side of the mouthparts of the first-instar nymph are bilocular pores rather than trilocular pores as in N. sophorica (Wu & Nan, 2012).
• Structure: Adult female body elongate; dorsum convex and venter flat; derm membranous, orange-yellow; eyes and mouthparts black; antennae, legs and spiracles yellow-brown and well developed; body surrounded by white wax. Located in bark crack of host plant. First instar nymph yellow, oblong, 0.61-0.74mm long and 0.20-0.24mm wide. Posterior extremity blunt, with a pair of long caudal setae, each about 112 long. (Wu & Nan, 2012) After examining original material of cysts of N. lonicera, Zheng, et al. (2024) noted that the cyst stage described by Wu & Nan (2012) was not a “second-instar nymph” but a third-instar female nymph, since their specimens had the anterior 6 abdominal spiracles each with sieve-like disc-pores in the atria (a diagnostic character for third-instar female nymphs). Second-instar nymph described and illustrated in Zheng, et al., 2024.
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wu & Nan, 2012,

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