Valid Names Results
Phyllococcus Ehrhorn, 1916 (
Pseudococcidae)
Nomenclatural History
- Phyllococcus
Ehrhorn
1916: 236.
Type species: Cissococcus oahuensis Ehrhorn
by monotypy
.
accepted valid name
Remarks
- Systematics: Subfamily: Pseudococcinae (Choi & Lee, 2022)
- Structure: Adult female living in cone-shaped galls on leaves. Body elongate oval, tapering, ending in a chitinous segment with well-developed caudal lobes, forming a funnel, in the center of which is situated the anal ring with six hairs. Antennae with seven asymmetrically formed joints. Legs short and stout, resembling crabs' claws. Anal region strongly chitinous. (Ehrhorn, 1916)
- General Remarks: Good definition and characters given by Ferris in Zimmerman (1948).
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