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Prionococcus alexandrae Gavrilov-Zimin, 2023 (Coccidae: Prionococcus)

Prionococcus alexandrae Gavrilov-Zimin 2023: 313. Type data: MEXICO: Oaxaca city, Cerro del Fortin park, on the leaves of Yucca sp., 10/9/2021; by I. Gavrilov-Zimin and A. Kurochkin.. Holotype, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes. One older female on the preparation together with the holotype, 3 females on two other preparations, but with the same collection data; a large series of females in acetoethanol. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species differs from all other Prionococcus in the marginal setae (mainly bulbous), forming loose, widely interrupted row with gaps several times longer than setae and in the absence of stigmatic setae. (Gavrilov-Zimin, 2023)
Structure: Adult female. Body broadly oval, about 3 mm long in mature females, without visible wax secretions. Antenna 7-segmented, about 300 μm long. Legs well developed, without tibio-tarsal articulatory sclerosis; claw without a denticle; claw digitules enlarged, with large apical knobs. Anal ring with 8 setae; anal lobes almost triangle in shape, with group of short flagellate setae on apex of each lobe. Multilocular pores absent. Quinquelocular pores, each about 5 μm in diameter, forming band in each spiracular furrow and present around vaginal opening (some pregenital pores with 6 loculi). (Gavrilov-Zimin, 2023)
General Remarks: Detailed description, photograph and illustration in Gavrilov-Zimin, 2023)

Gavril2023: description, diagnosis, distribution, illustration, key, taxonomy, 313-315