Valid Names Results

Ortheziola marottai Kaydan & Szita, 2014 (Ortheziidae: Ortheziola)

Nomenclatural History

• Ortheziola marottai Kaydan & Szita 2014: 72-74. Type data: GREECE: Thessaly, 4/8/2004, by S. Vit. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Geneva: Museum d'Historie Naturelle, Switzerland; accepted valid name

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Remarks

• Systematics: http://zoobank.org/94ADD9F9-D78B-4513-944E-A264D97F8944

  Ortheziola marottai is characterized by having dorsal wax plate 3 divided medially, and lacking ventral plate 19 near the body margin. This species very close to O. britannica but differs by having (O. britannica values in brackets): i.) anterior margin of ovisac band wavy (anterior margin of ovisac band straight); ii.) large numbers of multilocular pores around vulva and on abdominal segments (multilocular pores only present in small numbers) and iii.) total absence of ventral plate 19 (plate 19 present). (Kaydan, et al., 2014)

• Structure: Slide-mounted adult female body oval. Antennae each with 3 segments, third (apical) antennal segment with long slender apical seta. Legs each with rows of robust spine-like setae. Wax plates (represented by groups of spines) absent from ventral marginal areas of head and thorax, except for a small spine cluster next to antenna and a normal wax plate between antennae; each thoracic spiracle surrounded by marginal wax band. Setae few, scattered; and associated with anterior and posterior multilocular pore rows, several more associated with posterior multilocular pores surrounding vulva. Abdominal spiracles present with 3 pairs on each side of body anterior to ovisac band and 1 pair situated inside ovisac band, near anterolateral angle; each abdominal spiracle with a sclerotized vestibule. Anal ring with incomplete triple row of circular pores. A sclerotized tergite present on abdominal segment VII, anterior to anal ring. Each multilocular pore cluster laterad of anal ring with an abdominal spiracle present in centre. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2024)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Kaydan, et al., 2014.

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