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Porphyrophora ningxiana Yang, 1979 (Margarodidae: Porphyrophora)

Porphyrophora ningxiana Yang 1979: 41, 47. Type data: CHINA: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Lingwu City, on Glycyrrhiza uralensis (Fabaceae), / 08/16/1975. Lectotype, female, male, and first instar, by subsequent designation Type depository: Shanxi: Entomological Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China; accepted valid name (discovered by ZhengWu2024, 485). Notes: Paralectotypes: CHINA: same data as holotype, 3 adult ♀♀ mounted together with lectotype on 1 slide (SAUC) Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Countries: 1

ZhengWu2024: pp.497 ( Adult (F) ) [Margarodidae from China]
TangHa1995: pp.47-48, 603-606 ( Adult (F) ) [Palearctic] Key as: Porphyrophora sophorae

Systematics: In the 1960s and 1970s, the Porphyrophora outbreak on licorice roots in Ningxia, China, was identified as P. ningxiana by Jikun Yang (1979), but Tang considered that the species was a synonym of P. sophorae (Archangelskaya, 1935) (Tang & Hao 1995, Tang 2000b). After studying the type specimens of P. ningxiana, adult female P. ningxiana were found to differ from those of P. sophorae by having (contrasting character states in P. sophorae in parentheses): (i) abdominal spiracles numbering 2 pairs (absent); (ii) long hair-like setae shorter than 400 μm long (longer than 500 μm long); (iii) long hair-like setae in a dense, uneven segmental bands each 6–9 setae wide across abdominal tergites (bands each only 3–6 setae wide); (iv) multilocular disc-pores each with a bright central zone (each without bright central zone); and (v) inner ductule of dorsal microducts filiform (inner ductule of dorsal microducts bifurcate). Here, we therefore regard P. ningxiana as a valid species (stat. rest.) (data of P. sophorae is derived from Vahedi & Hodgson (2007)). (Zheng & Wu, 2024)
General Remarks: Types may have been lost. Description and illustration by Zheng & Wu (2024), who designated lectotypes.