Valid Names Results
Pseudococcus orchidicola Takahashi, 1939 (Pseudococcidae: Pseudococcus)Nomenclatural History
- Pseudococcus orchidicola Takahashi 1939b: 242. Type data: MARIANNA ISLANDS: Rota, Sabana, on an orchid. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Beards1966,459). Type depository: Taichung: Entomology Collection, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Wu-feng, Taichung, Taiwan; accepted valid name
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 12 | Genera: 20
- Araceae
- Alocasia | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Alocasia macrorrhizos | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Colocasia esculenta | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Cyrtosperma merkusii | Beards1966 BenDov1994 | (= Cyrtosperma chamissonis)
- Epipremnum aureum | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a | (= Scindapsus aureus)
- Epipremnum pinnatum | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Monstera deliciosa | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Araliaceae
- Heteropanax fragrans | KooKiLe2017
- Asparagaceae
- Cordyline fruticosa | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a | (= Cordyline terminalis)
- Dracaena fragrans | KooKiLe2017
- Balanophoraceae
- Balanophora fungosa | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Combretaceae
- Terminalia catappa | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Convolvulaceae
- Merremia peltata | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Heliconiaceae
- Heliconia bihai | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Moraceae
- Artocarpus integer | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Ficus | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Musaceae
- Musa paradisiaca | Beards1966 BenDov1994 | ssp. sapientum
- Orchidaceae
- Orchidaceae | BenDov1994 Takaha1939b
- Pandanaceae
- Freycinetia urvilleana | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Pandanus | Beards1966 BenDov1994
- Pandanus tectorius | Beards1966 BenDov1994
- Piperaceae
- Macropiper | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Piper methysticum | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Piper nigrum | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 16
- Cook Islands | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Caroline Islands | Beards1966 BenDov1994
- Kosrae (=Kusaie) | Beards1966 BenDov1994
- Fiji | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- India | MardinSaMi2025
- Kiribati | Beards1966 BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Marshall Islands | Beards1966 BenDov1994
- New Caledonia | MilleHeCa2016
- Niue | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Northern Mariana Islands | Beards1966 BenDov1994 Takaha1939b
- Solomon Islands | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- South Korea | KooKiLe2017
- Tokelau | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Tonga | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Tuvalu | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Vanuatu (=New Hebrides) | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
- Western Samoa | BenDov1994 WilliaWa1988a
Keys
- Suh2019a: pp.2-6 ( Adult (F) ) [mealybugs intercepted in S. Korea]
- VonEllWa2016: pp.74-76 ( Adult (F) ) [Pseudococcus species present in the New World]
- Tang1992: pp.236 ( Adult (F) ) [China]
- WilliaWa1988a: pp.173 ( Adult (F) ) [Tropical South Pacific Region]
- Beards1966: pp.437 ( Adult (F) ) [Federated States of Micronesia]
Remarks
- Systematics: This species is similar to P. longispinus in general morphology, especially of having long posterior pairs of wax filaments while alive with their two posterior most filaments as long as the body, and thus P. orchidicola must have been misidentified as P. longispinus at least in Korea. Morphologically, P. orchidicola can be separated from P. longispinus by the following differences: presence of ventral marginal ducts (either with or without rims) on head (usually with a conspicuous group between bases of antennae) and all thoracic segments [ventral marginal ducts absent from head and only a few on thorax, all with rims in P. longispinus], and more importantly, median ventral oral collar tubular ducts present on abdomen as far forward as segment IV [median ventral oral collar tubular ducts present on abdomen only as far forward as segment VI in P. longispinus. (Koo, et al., 2017) Koo, et al., 2017 sequenced its COI barcode regions for about 48 samples and found that the difference between the two is quite large, about 10 % difference in p-distance, confirming they are not the same species at all.
- General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Beardsley (1966) and by Williams & Watson (1988a). Good description of the adult female given by Tang (1992).
Illustrations
Citations
- Beards1966: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 457-460
- BenDov1994: catalog, 406
- HodgsoLa2011: distribution, host, 29
- JeongKyKi2018: distribution, life history,
- KooJeKi2017: distribution, 440
- KooKiLe2017: biology, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, molecular data, 185-193
- MardinSaMi2025: distribution, 201
- MilleHeCa2016: distribution, host, 151
- Suh2019a: key, 3
- Takaha1939b: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 242-245
- Tang1992: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 255-256
- VonEllWa2016: description, distribution, host, key, morphology, structure, 74-82
- WilliaWa1988a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 197-198, 200
