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Paraputo platani Zhang & Wu, 2017 (Pseudococcidae: Paraputo)

Paraputo platani Zhang & Wu 2017: 61-64. Type data: CHINA: Sichuan, Yaan city, Zhangjiashan Park, under bark crack of Platanus sp. (Platanaceae), attended by ants, 7/28/2014, by Jiang-tao Zhang and Xu-bo Wang. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Beijing: Forestry University, Beijing, China; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes. Four adult females, same date and locality as holotype. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Paraputo platani is most similar to P. comantis Wang in the number of cerarii, long setae present flanking anal ring and anal ring bearing more than six setae. However, P. platani differs from P. comantis Wang by the following features (condition of P. comantis Wang given in parentheses): (i) posteriormost three cerarii (C16, C17 and C18) situated on membranous plates (those cerarii situated on sclerotized areas); (ii) translucent pores present on hind coxa (absent from hind coxa); (iii) oral collar tubular ducts distributed across abdominal segments V–VI (ducts distributed across segments V–VII). (Zhang & Wu, 2017)
Structure: In life, adult female convex, segmentation prominent, coated with dense white mealy wax and with short dense white wax filaments around body margin. Body of adult female on microscope slide broadly oval, almost circular, 2.2–2.45 mm long and 1.85–2.05 mm wide. Anal lobes slightly prominent, ventral surface of each lobe with an apical seta. (Zhang & Wu, 2017)
General Remarks: Detailed description, photograph and illustration in Zhang & Wu, 2017.

LiZhWu2024: key, 479
Tanaka2022: key, 342
ZhangWu2017: ant association, description, diagnosis, host, illustration, taxonomy, 61-64