Valid Names Results

Pulvinaria citricola (Kuwana, 1909) (Coccidae: Pulvinaria)

Nomenclatural History

• Takahashia citricola Kuwana 1909: 153. Type data: JAPAN: Kumamoto, Hukuoka and Wakayama, on Citrus.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Ibaraki-ken: Insect Taxonomy Laboratory, National Institute of Agricultural Environmental Sciences, Kannon-dai, Yatabe, Tsukuba-shi, (Kuwana), Japan; accepted valid name
• Saissetia citricola (Kuwana, 1909); Takahashi & Tachikawa 1956: 7. Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; change of combination
• Parasaissetia citricola (Kuwana, 1909); Yang 1982: 178. change of combination
• Pulvinaria citricolar (Kuwana, 1909); Kwon, et al. 2005: 54. misspelling of species epithet
• Pulvinaria citricola Tanaka 2012b: 1-10. change of combination resulting in homonymy Replacement name for Pulvinaria citricola Kuwana, 1914 Notes: The transfer of T. citricola Kuwana, 1909, to Pulvinaria necessitated a replacement name for the junior homonym Pulvinaria citricola Kuwana, 1914.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 15 | Genera: 19

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• TanakaKa2022a: pp.447-448 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria species in Japan]
• CaoFe2020: pp.233-234 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria in China]
• Tang1991: pp.215 ( Adult (F) ) [China]
• Kawai1980: pp.157 ( Adult (F) ) [Japan]

Remarks

• Systematics: Tanaka (2012b) moved Takahashia citricola Kuwana, 1909 into Pulvinaria creating a junior homonym of P. citricola, Kuwana 1914. Pulvinaria niipponica Lindinger, 1933 was resurrected as the replacement name. Kuwana's type material of this species could not be found in the Kuwana collection of th National Institute of Agricultural Environmental Sciences, Tukuba, and is presumed lost. Pulvinaria citricola resembles the Japanese species P. nipponica, P. kuwacola, and P. photiniae in the distibution of type III ventral tubular ducts and the shape of marginal setae. However, it is easily distinguishable from those three species in having a well-developed discal seta on each anal plate, and by the shape of the anal plates which are posteriorly elongated. (Tanaka, 2012b)
• Structure: See colour photograph in Kawai (1980, Figs. 6.41, a,b). Adult female: body nearly round, broadest across thorax and anterior abdomen. Body strongly lifted by ventral ovisac. Anal plates posteriorly elongate; each plate with posterior margin about two times as long as anterior margin, with 3 fine apical setae and a well-developed discal seta. Three types of ventral tubular ducts present; smallest type forming complete broad submarginal band. (Tanaka, 2012b)
• General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Tang (1991). Photograph of a pre-oviposition adult ffemale in Tanaka (2012b).

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