Valid Names Results

Parlagena mckenziei Balachowsky, 1950 (Diaspididae: Parlagena)

Nomenclatural History

• Parlagena McKenzei Balachowsky 1950a: 18-20. Type data: IRAN: Iran-Chahre, Beloutchistan, on Tamarix sp., by M. Kaussari. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Parlagena Mc. Kenziei Balachowsky, 1950; Balachowsky 1953g: 834. misspelling of species epithet
• Parlagena mckenziei Balachowsky, 1950; Borchsenius 1966: 202. emendation that is justified

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.183 ( Adult (F) ) [Parlagena in Iran]
• Willia1969c: pp.99 ( ) [Key to species of Parlagena]

Remarks

• Systematics: Parlagena mckenziei is similar to P. buxi, but differs in the absence of median macropores, the form and number of plates and the number of peristigmatic glands (Balachowsky, 1950a).
• Structure: Female scale circular, faintly convex, satiny white. Larval exuviae brown, subcentral, 1.0-1.2 mm long. Adult female pyriform, narrowed at abdominal segment III; cephalothoracic derm not sclerotized, entirely membranous. Pygidium with two pairs of well developed lobes, 3rd set of lobes entirely absent (Balachowsky, 1950a). Slide-mounted adult female pyriform, body narrowing at abdominal segment III. Antennae each with a median split and bearing 1 seta. Anterior spiracles each associated with 1 disc pore; posterior spiracles without associated disc pores. Pygidium with 2 pairs of lobes; median lobes (L1) large and parallel, each lobe asymmetric, inner margin with 1 notch and outer margin with 2 notches. Plates absent from median space. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Balachowsky (1950a).

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