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Phenacoccus bromi Moghaddam, 2018 (Pseudococcidae: Phenacoccus)

Phenacoccus bromi Moghaddam 2018: 185-187. Type data: IRAN: Markazi province, Arak, Haftad-Gholleh Protected Area, Latehdar, (N33˚59′39.1″/ E50˚06′56.8″), on Bromus sp., 6/3/2017, by M. Moghaddam. Holotype, , by original designation Type depository: Tehran: Hayk Mirzayans Insects Museum, Tehran, Iran; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: IRAN, 20 adult females mounted singly on slides, each slide left label with same data as holotype slide.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

MoghadWa2022: pp.87 ( Adult (F) ) [Phenacoccus species in Iran]
Moghad2019: pp.454 ( Adult (F) ) [Phenacoccus in Iran]
Moghad2018: pp.187 ( Adult (F) ) [Western Palaearctic Phenacoccus species lacking ventral multilocular pores]

Systematics: Phenacoccus bromi is characterised by the complete absence of ventral multilocular disc pores. It comes closest to P. giuliae, described from Sardinia on Umbilicus rupestris (Crassulaceae); P. larvalis, from Tadzhikistan on four host plant families (Apiaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Hypericaceae, and Lamiaceae); and P. memorabilis, from Uzbekistan on 2 host plant families (Cyperaceae and Poaceae). P. bromi is closest to P. memorabilis, in having the anal lobe cerarii with 7 or 8 setae; but it differs as follows (character states on P. memorabilis in brackets): (i) quinqulocular pores absent (present), (ii) some of dorsal setae with one trilocular pore at base (absent), antenna 9-segmented (8-segmented). ((Moghaddam, 2018)
Structure: Adult female body broadly oval, greyish, covered with white powdery wax, with 1 pair of short waxy filaments at posterior end of body; body segmentation apparent. (Moghaddam, 2018) Slide-mounted adult female oval to broadly oval. Anal lobes moderately developed. Antennae each with 9 segments. Legs well developed; tarsal and claw digitules knobbed. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2022)
General Remarks: Detailed description, illustration and photographs in Moghaddam, 2018.

Moghad2018: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 185-187
Moghad2018: description, diagnosis, distribution, illustration, key, taxonomy, 185-187
Moghad2019: key, 454
MoghadWa2022: diagnosis, distribution, illustration, key, 11, 87, 91-92, 93, 147