Valid Names Results

Prionococcus americanus Williams, Hodgson & Danzig, 2002 (Coccidae: Prionococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Prionococcus americanus Williams, Hodgson & Danzig 2002: 114. Type data: MEXICO: Cozumel, on Coccoloba sp.; collected M.L. Williams, 20.8.1988.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Gavril2023: pp.315 ( Adult (F) ) [species of Prionococcus]

Remarks

• Systematics: P. americanus is easily separable from P. agave in (i) lacking a distinct group of spines in each stigmatic cleft; (ii) having different-shaped marginal spines anteriorly and posteriorly; and (iii) in having the claw degitules much more similar than on P. agave. (Williams, et al., 2002)
• Structure: Dried specimens oval, rather flat to slightly convex, dorsum sclerotised and brown with a thin cottony cover except medially; leaf covered in fluffy white cottony wax, which is assumed to have been secreted by the adult females. Mounted females sometimes oval but generally showing slight to considerable asymmetry with one side significantly longer than the other and with anal lobe on one side strongly convex. (Williams, et al., 2002)
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female, first-instar nymph, second-instar female, second-instar male, and pupa by Williams et al. (2002).

Illustrations

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