Valid Names Results

Porphyrophora monticola Borchsenius, 1949 (Margarodidae: Porphyrophora)

Nomenclatural History

• Porphyrophora monticola Borchsenius 1949b: 336. Type data: ARMENIA: Caucasus, Alagez, host plant not indicated.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name
• Coccionella monticola (Borchsenius, 1949); Lindinger 1954: 615. change of combination
• Porphyrophora georgica Hadzibejli 1957: 205. Type data: GEORGIA: West Georgia, on roots of Dorycnium graecum and D. intermedium.. Syntypes, female and first instar, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by Jashen1999, 43).
• Porphyrophora monticola Borchsenius, 1949; Jakubski 1965: 25. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• VahediHo2007: pp.31-34 ( Adult (F) ) [Porphyrophora species of Palearctic region]
• Vahedi2002: pp.279-287 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Porphyrophora]
• TangHa1995: pp.47-48, 603-606 ( Adult (F) ) [Palearctic]
• Borchs1950b: pp.38 ( Adult (F) ) [USSR]

Remarks

• Systematics: Jakubski (1965) suggested that this species might be synonymous with Porphyrophora tritici Bodenheimer.
• Biology: Found on roots of the host plant (Hadzibejli, 1957).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Borchsenius (1949b, 1950b), Hadzibejli (1957), Jakubski (1965), Vahedi (2002) and by Vahedi & Hodgson (2007).

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