Valid Names Results

Phenacoccus avenae Borchsenius, 1949 (Pseudococcidae: Phenacoccus)

Nomenclatural History

Phenacoccus avenae Borchsenius 1949: 217. Type data: ARMENIA: on oats. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (WilliaMi1985,672). Type depository: Shanxi: Entomological Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China; St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name
Caulococcus avenae (Borchsenius, 1949); Borchsenius 1960c: 49. change of combination
Phenacoccus balachowskyi Savescu 1984: 150. Type data: ROMANIA: Tulcea District, Badabag, on Agropyron intermedium. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Bucarest: Academie des Sciences Agricoles et Forestieres, Romania; junior synonym (discovered by DanzigGa2014, 304). Illustr.
Phenacoccus avenae Borchsenius, 1949; Ben-Dov 1994: 309. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

oat mealybug KosztaKo1988F

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 12 | Genera: 34

Amaryllidaceae

Galanthus elwesii | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985
Leucojum | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985
Narcissus | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985
Pancratium | BenDov2012
Sternbergia | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985

Apiaceae

Bifora radians | KaydanKiKo2005

Asparagaceae

Bellevalia ciliata | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985 | (= Hyacinthus azureus)
Drimia maritima | BenDov1987 BenDov1994 | (= Urginea maritima)
Scilla bifolia | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985
Scilla luciliae | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985

Asteraceae

Carduus pycnocephalus | KaydanKiKo2005
Centaurea | KaydanKiKo2005
Erigeron canadensis | MastenSiMa2015 | = Conyza canadensis
Lactuca | KaydanKiKo2005

Boraginaceae

Echium | KaydanKiKo2005

Brassicaceae

Diplotaxis tenuifolia | KaydanKiKo2005
Sisymbrium | KaydanKiKo2005

Iridaceae

Crocus | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985
Freesia | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985
Gladiolus | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985
Iris germanica | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985

Lamiaceae

Lamium | KaydanKiKo2005
Stachys | KaydanKiKo2005

Liliaceae

Fritillaria | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985
Tulipa | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985

Poaceae

Agrostis | BenDov1994 KaydanUlEr2007 Marott1992a
Avena | Borchs1949 KaydanKiKo2005 TerGri1966
Avena fatua | BenDov1994 Marott1992a
Avena sterilis | KaydanKo2010a
Bromus inermis | KaydanKiKo2005
Cynodon dactylon | BenDov1994 KaydanKiKo2005 Marott1992a
Hordeum murinum | BenDov1994 KaydanKiKo2005 Marott1992a
Lolium | KaydanUlEr2007
Poa bulbosa | BenDov1994 TerGri1966 TerGri1973
Thinopyrum intermedium | BenDov1994 Savesc1984 | (= Agropyron intermedium)

Resedaceae

Reseda | KaydanUlEr2007

Rubiaceae

Galium | KaydanKiKo2005

Geographic Distribution

Countries: 9

Armenia | BenDov1994 TerGri1966 TerGri1973

Croatia | MastenSiMa2015

Hungary | BenDov1994 KosztaKo1988F KozarKiSa2004

Israel | BenDov1987 BenDov1994

Italy | BenDov1994 LongoMaPe1995 Marott1992a MarottTr1990

Netherlands | BenDov1994 WilliaMi1985

Romania | BenDov1994 Savesc1984

Turkey | BenDov1994 KaydanKiKo2005 KaydanUlEr2007 WilliaMi1985

Ukraine

Krym (=Crimea) Oblast | Danzig2003

Keys

TanakaSaCh2022: pp.313 ( Adult (F) ) [Phenacoccus species in Japan]
SpodekBeMo2018: pp.3-4 ( Adult (F) ) [Phenacoccus in Israel]
DanzigGa2014: pp.269-277 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic Phenacoccus species]
Danzig2006a: pp.197-200 ( Adult (F) ) [A Key to Species of the Genus Phenacoccus]
MarottRuMa1997: pp.438 ( Adult (F) ) [Italy]
Tang1992: pp.530 ( Adult (F) ) [China]
KosztaKo1988F: pp.123 ( Adult (F) ) [Central Europe]
TerGri1973: pp.136 ( Adult (F) ) [Armenia]
Borchs1949: pp.210 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic region ]

Remarks

Systematics: Ph. avenae is similar to the North American species Ph. colemani. Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin (2014) stated that "Juging (sic) on the original description and figure"...Ph. balachowskyi .... "differs from Ph. avenae in the absence of several thoracicicerarii only. However, such reduction of thoracic cerarii is unual element of individual variability in many species of mealybugs and can not be used to our mind for the substantiation of species independency."
Biology: Occurring on the roots, corms and rhizomes of various ornamental plants and inside the leaf sheaths of grasses.
Economic Importance: Occuring on plants of economic importance to horticulture. Frequenly intercepted on corms and rhizomes imported into Britain and the U.S.A. (Williams & Miller, 1985).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Ter-Grigorian (1973), Williams & Miller (1985) and by Danzig (2003). Description of adult female by Borchsenius (1949) and by Tang (1992). Description of female third-instar nymph by Ter-Grigorian (1973). Description of the adult female of the junior synonym, Phenacoccus balachowskyi given by Savescu (1984).

Illustrations

Citations

BenDov1987: distribution, host, 115
BenDov1994: 309
BenDov1994: catalog, 310
BenDov2012: catalog, distribution, host, 36
Borchs1949: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 217-219
Borchs1960c: taxonomy, 49
CebeciAr2006: distribution, host, 139
Danzig2003: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 345-347
Danzig2006a: taxonomy, 198
DanzigGa2014: description, distribution, host, key, taxonomy, 303-304
KaydanKiKo2005: distribution, host, 89
KaydanKo2010a: distribution, host, 35-36
KaydanUlEr2007: catalog, distribution, host, 101
KondoWa2022a: distribution, host, list, 24
KosztaKo1988F: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 125-126
KozarKiSa2004: distribution, 57
LongoMaPe1995: distribution, 119
LopezMBeRe2014: symbionts,
MalumpBa2012: distribution, host, 32-33
Marott1992a: distribution, host, 83-84
MarottTr1990: distribution, host, 109
MastenSiMa2015: distribution, host, 320
RenAsHu2017: DNA, phylogeny, 4, 6
Savesc1984: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 150-153
SpodekBeMo2018: distribution, key, 2
TanakaSaCh2022: key, 313
Tang1992: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 532-533
TerGri1966: distribution, host, 87
TerGri1973: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 168-170
UlgentErYa2022: distribution, host, S125
WilliaMa2012: distribution, host, 89
WilliaMi1985: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 671-674