Valid Names Results

Pulvinaria aligarhensis Avasthi & Shafee, 1985 (Coccidae: Pulvinaria)

Nomenclatural History

• Pulvinaria aligarhensis Avasthi & Shafee 1985: 1289. Type data: INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Aligarh, Naurangabad, on Azadirachta indica.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University, Department of Zoology, India; accepted valid name

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2024: pp.76 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Pulvinaria in Iran]
• TalukdDa2021: pp.440 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria in India]
• Joshi2017: pp.540 ( Adult (F) ) [Indian species of Pulvinaria]

Remarks

• Systematics: There are some differences between Indian and Iranian specimens (character states of Indian specimens in parenthesis): (i) pregenital disc-pores exceptionally widespread, present around anogenital fold and medially and submedially as far forward as head, where they also occur on the submargin (numerous anterior to anal fold and extending forward medially as far as mouthparts); (ii) marginal setae blunt, some with knobbed apices (all with knobbed apices); and (iii) long marginal setae at apex of each anal lobe numbering 3 or 4 (numbering only 1) (Moghaddam & Watson 2024).
• Structure: Live adult female oval, flat, grey with a longitudinal dark brown median patch. Mature adult female becomes enclosed in ovisac material. Slide-mounted adult female body broadly oval. Stigmatic clefts relatively deep. Anal cleft of moderate depth (Moghaddam & Watson 2024).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of Indian specimens by Avasthi & Shafee (1985); of Iranian specimens by Moghaddam & Watson (2024).

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