Valid Names Results

Pulvinaria neocellulosa Takahashi, 1940 (Coccidae: Pulvinaria)

Nomenclatural History

• Pulvinaria neocellulosa Takahashi 1940: 24. Type data: TAIWAN: Taihoku, on Murraya sp.; collected 23.v.1939, by R. Takahashi.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (TanakaAm2005,83). Type depository: Taichung: Entomology Collection, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Wu-feng, Taichung, Taiwan; accepted valid name
• Eupulvinaria neocellulosa (Takahashi, 1940); Tang 1991: 238. change of combination
• Pulvinaria neocellulosa Takahashi, 1940; Ben-Dov 1993: 272. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

• Okinawa-wata-kaigaramushi TanakaAm2005

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 4

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• TanakaKa2022a: pp.447-448 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria species in Japan]
• CaoFe2020: pp.233-234 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria in China]
• TanakaKa2020: pp.420 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria from Ryukyu Islands]
• TanakaAmUe2006: pp.180 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria species of Ryuku archipelago]
• TanakaAmUe2006: pp.180 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria species of Ryuku archipelago]
• TanakaAmUe2006: pp.180 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria species of Ryuku archipelago]
• Tang1991: pp.234 ( Adult (F) ) [China]
• TaoWoCh1983: pp.83 ( Adult (F) ) [Taiwan]
• TaoWoCh1983: pp.83 ( Adult (F) ) [Taiwan]
• TaoWoCh1983: pp.83 ( Adult (F) ) [Taiwan]

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily: Coccinae A, Pulvinarini (Choi & Lee, 2019) Pulvinaria neocellulosa is similar to P. aurantii and P. polygonata in having (i) well-developed dermal areolations and a distinct polygonal sclerotised pattern on the dorsum; (ii) the same number of loculi in the multilocular pores, and (iii) in having the same distribution of type III ventral tubular ducts. It differs from P. aurantii and P. polygonata in body coloration in life, which is clear yellow across the entire dorsum (P. aurantii and P. polygonata are greenish brown to greyish brown with a dark brown longitudinal line in the center of the dorsum); and in the shape of the marginal setae, which are relatively blunt or simply pointed apically (in P. aurantii and P. polygonata many of the marginal setae are slightly spatulate, frayed or split apically).. Pulvinaria neocellulosa can be separated from other Pulvinaria species distributed in Ryukyu Islands and P. vitis by condition of dermal areolation, location of eyespots, shape of marginal seta apices, Type III ventral tubular duct distribution, the number of loculi in each multilocular pore, and the number of stigmatic spines in each stigmatic cleft. (Tanaka & Kamitani, 2020)
• Structure: See colour photograph in Wong et al. (1999). Body of lving adult female elongate oval, usually flat. Before oviposition, entire dorsum clear yellow and without visible wax. Slide-mounted adult female body elongate oval, 1.9–3.1 mm long, 0.9–1.9 mm wide, margin with a distinct and relatively deep indentation at each stigmatic cleft; anal cleft approximately 1/4–1/6 of body length.(Tanaka & Kamitani, 2020)
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Tao et al. (1983) and by Tanaka & Amano (2005). Tanaka & Amano (2005) said that the marginal setae have blunt apices only. However, when Tanaka & Kamitani redescribed the species, it was found that in some of the specimens collected in the Ryukyu Islands, P. neocellulosa also has some marginal setae with simple pointed apices.

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