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

Pseudococcus cubaensis Granara de Willink 2018: 23. Type data: CUBA: 4/24/1946 by E.F. Gebhart. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Gainesville: Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry, Florida, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Pseudococcus cubaensis is similar to Pseudococcus pithecellobii found in Texas, because it lacks a duct with an oral border between C2 and C3, and it has few dorsal ducts on the abdomen. It differs because it has 1) eyes with discoidal pores on the sclerotized surface (membranous in P. pithecellobii); 2) no ducts with oral rims on the venter between C5 and C11 (three ducts in P. pithecellobii); and 3) numerous ducts with oral collars along the entire margin of the venter (scarce, submarginal in thorax, more numerous in recent abdominal segments in P. pithecellobii). Also P. cubaensis can be confused with P. elisae because both have few ducts with an oral rim on the dorsum and ventral ducts with an oral collar of differing sizes. They differ because P. cubaensis has translucent pores on the tibias only (femur and tibia in P. elisae) and eyes with discoidal pores on a wide sclerotized border (narrow sclerotization in P. elisae). (Granara de Willink & González, 2018)
Structure: Translucent pores in the tibia; eyes with sclerotized surface and large discoidal pores; tubular ducts with dorsal oral borders, scarcebor absent in the dorsal midline; submarginal ventral ducts with oral collar, of different sizes, the largest ones on the thorax, some with a little conspicuous edge and sometimes associated with discoidal pores. (Granara de Willink & González, 2018)

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