Valid Names Results

Pseudococcus calchaquii Granara de Willink, 2018 (Pseudococcidae: Pseudococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Pseudococcus calchaquii Granara de Willink 2018: 18. Type data: ARGENTINA: Tucumán, Dpto. Tafí, Tafí del Valle, La Quebradita, 3/?/1989, on Trifolium repens, “trébol”, by M.C.G. Willink.. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Tucuman: Fundacion e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidade Nactional de Tucuman, Argentina; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: 1 adult female and 1 immature on same slide number 1156 Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• GranarGo2018: pp.10-14 ( Adult (F) ) [Central & South American Pseudococcus]

Remarks

• Systematics: Pseudococcus calchaquii. is similar to Pseudococcus pabulum because both have numerous tubular ducts on the back, always absent between C2-C3 and numerous multilocular pores on the thorax and ventral abdomen. They differ because P. calchaquii possesses 1) legs with femur, tibia and tarsus of 737-805 μm (P. pabulum of 590-647 μm); 2) 17 pairs of well developed cerari, all well (P. pabulum with 15 to 17 pairs of cerari with the C4 and C8 reduced or absent); 3) multilocular pores from segment III of the abdomen to segment IX and in the middle area of ​​the thorax (P. pabulum with multilocular pores in all segments of the abdomen, in the middle of ​​the thorax and anterior to the buccal apparatus); 4) Ducts with associated oral collar grouped usually to multilocular pores, behind the second pair of absent legs (present in P. pabulum); and 5) translucent pores on coxa, femur and tibia (P. pabulum with translucent pores only on the coxa, (Granara de Willlink & González, 2018) trochanter, femur and tibia).
• Structure: Translucent pores on coxa, femur and tibia; eyes with 1-2 discoidal pores on membranous edge, tubular ducts with oral collar on the back of the thorax and abdomen; segment VII with a submarginal duct, two lateral ones on each side of the body and one on the midline, absent between C2 and C3; two tubular ducts with oral collars on the venter between C5 and C11; ducts with collars on the ventral surface between the antennas, zone near the C5 and margin of thorax and abdomen. (Granara de Willlink & González, 2018)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Granara de Willlink & González, 2018.

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