Valid Names Results

Pelionella balteata (Green, 1928) (Pseudococcidae: Pelionella)

Nomenclatural History

Phenacoccus balteatus Green 1928a: 20. Type data: ENGLAND: Somerset, Cheddar Gorge, on Arrhenatherum elatius. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Phenacoccus venustus Green 1931: 265. Type data: ICELAND: Seydisfordur, on Festuca rubra. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by Danzig2001, 125). Illustr.
Phenacoccus saratogensis Rau 1937: 198. Type data: U.S.A.: New York, Saratoga Springs, on Hystrix patula. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by Danzig2001, 125). Illustr.
Peliococcus balteatus (Green, 1928); Borchsenius 1949: 244. change of combination
Peliococcus saratogensis (Rau, 1937); Ferris 1950b: 116. change of combination
Peliococcus venustus (Green, 1931); Ossiannilsson 1955: 5. change of combination
Peliococcus balteaus (Green, 1928); Kozár et al. 2013: 105. misspelling of species epithet
Pelionella balteatus (Green, 1928); Kaydan 2015: 202. change of combination
Peliococcus balteatus; Williams, D.J. 2017a: 251. subsequent use

Common Names

girdled mealybug KosztaKo1988F
Saratoga mealybug Koszta1996

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 12

Poaceae

Anthoxanthum odoratum | BugajNJuKa2021
Arrhenatherum elatius | BenDov1994 Green1928a
Brachypodium | Gavril2010
Calamagrostis | BugajNJuKa2021
Dactylis glomerata | BenDov1994 Danzig1959
Danthonia decumbens | BenDov1994 Koteja1972 | (= Sieglingia decumbens)
Deschampsia flexuosa | BenDov1994 Ossian1959
Elymus repens | BenDov1994 Danzig1959 | (= Agropyron repens)
Festuca pratensis | BenDov1994 Koteja1972
Festuca rubra | BenDov1994 Green1931
Hystrix patula | BenDov1994 Ferris1950b Rau1937
Melica | BenDov1994 Koteja1972
Poa nemoralis | BenDov1994 Schmut1956b | (= Agrostis alba)

Geographic Distribution

Countries: 12

Bulgaria | Gavril2010

Czech Republic | BenDov1994 KosztaKo1988F Zahrad1956

Germany | BenDov1994 Schmut1956b Schmut1980

Greenland | Gertss2005a

Hungary | KozarSzFe2013

Iceland | BenDov1994 Green1931 Ossian1955

Poland | BenDov1994 Koteja1972 Koteja1974b Lagows1996

Russia

Kaliningrad Oblast | DanzigGa2014
Kamchatka Oblast | DanzigGa2014
Kuril Islands | BenDov1994 Danzig1978
Sakhalin Oblast | BenDov1994 Danzig1978
St. Petersburg (=Leningrad) Oblast | BenDov1994 Danzig1980b

Sweden | BenDov1994 Gertss2001 KosztaKo1988F Ossian1959

Ukraine | DanzigGa2014

Krym (=Crimea) Oblast | BenDov1994 Borchs1949 Danzig1980b

United Kingdom

England | BenDov1994 Green1928a

United States

New York | BenDov1994 Rau1937

Keys

Hodgso2020: pp.32-34 ( Adult (M) ) [higher groups of Pseudococcidae]
Tanaka2018a: pp.56-57 ( Adult (F) ) [Pelionella]
DanzigGa2014: pp.450-451 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic Pelionella species]
Hodgso2005: pp.3-4 ( Adult (M) ) [Coccoidea species of Greenland]
Danzig2001: pp.124-125 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic region]
Koszta1996: pp.148 ( Adult (F) ) [Northeastern North USA]
Tang1992: pp.514 ( Adult (F) ) [China]
KosztaKo1988F: pp.119 ( Adult (F) ) [Central Europe]
Danzig1980b: pp.120 ( Adult (F) ) [Russia]
Terezn1975: pp.201 ( Adult (F) ) [Ukraine]
Borchs1949: pp.242 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic region]

Remarks

Systematics: Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin (2014) used the combination "Pelionella balteata" before the genus name was made available in Kaydan, 2015 where it was made available in a manner that satisfies the requirements in the Code (ICZN, 1999)
Biology: Occurring on the undersurface of the leaves and in the leaf sheaths of the host plant.The species has been collected in Dryas-healths, in meadows, among grass in birch scrub, under stones, and in fell-fields, always in more or less dry localities. Lindroth (1931) found it on a slope with a luxuriant vegetation of grass and other herbs. Adults were found in July and August (Ossiannilsson, 1955).Occurring on the under side of the leaves.
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Ferris (1950b), Williams (1962), Tereznikova (1975), Danzig (1980b), Kosztarab & Kozár (1988F), Kosztarab (1996) and by Danzig (2001). Description and illustration of adult male by Hodgson (2005). Ossiannilsson (1955) provided supplementary notes on the taxonomic characters of this species.

Illustrations

Ferris1950b

Citations

BenDov1994: catalog, 291,298,301
Borchs1949: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 244
BugajNJuKa2021: distribution, host, list, 309
Danzig1959: distribution, host, 445
Danzig1978: distribution, host, 9
Danzig1980b: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 122-123
Danzig2001: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 125, 126
DanzigGa2014: description, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 451-453
Ferris1950b: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 116-117
Gavril2010: distribution, host, 36-37
Gertss2001: distribution, 123-130
Gertss2005a: distribution, host, 331-337
Green1928a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 20-21
Green1931: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 263-269
Hodgso2005: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 14-19
Hodgso2020: key, 33
HodgsoHa2013: phylogeny, taxonomy, 797
Koszta1996: description, distribution, host, illustration, life history, taxonomy, 148-149
KosztaKo1988F: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 119-120
KosztaRh1995: distribution, 111
Koteja1972: distribution, host, 569
Koteja1974b: distribution, taxonomy, 73
KozarSzFe2013: distribution, list of species, 91, 105, 123, 142, 159, 198
LagowsGo2020: distribution, 70
LagowsKo1996: distribution, host, 31, 33
Ossian1955: distribution, host, life history, 5-6
Ossian1959: distribution, host, 201
Rau1937: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 198-201
Schmut1956b: distribution, host, 65-66
Schmut1980: distribution, host, 50
SchmutHo2016: distribution, host, 25
Tanaka2018a: key,
Terezn1975: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 201-202
TrenchTo2014: distribution, 67
Willia1962: description, illustration, taxonomy, 32-33
Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 245, 251
WilliaMa2012: distribution, 83
Zahrad1956: distribution, host, 51