Valid Names Results

Puto ambiguus (Fullaway, 1910) (Putoidae: Puto)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroputo ambigua Fullaway 1909: 73. Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; nomen nudum
• Ceroputo ambigua Fullaway 1910a: 227. Type data: U.S.A.: California, Santa Clara County, near Stanford Univerity, on Salicornia ambigua. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name
• Puto ambigua (Fullaway, 1910); Ferris 1918d: 62. change of combination
• Puto ambiguus (Fullaway, 1910); McKenzie 1967: 333. emendation that is justified

Common Names

• ambiguous mealybug McKenz1967

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• PowellMi2024: pp.303-304 ( Adult (F) ) [New World Puto species]
• PowellMi2024: pp.304-305 ( Adult (M) ) [Puto species]
• WilliaGr1992: pp.469 ( Adult (F) ) [Central and South America]
• McKenz1967: pp.328 ( Adult (F) ) [U.S.A., California]
• McKenz1961: pp.33 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]
• McKenz1960: pp.731 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]
• Ferris1950b: pp.192 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]

Remarks

• Biology: Living on the branches of its host plants. The male is wingless. Ferris (1950b) commented that this appears to be a seashore species, associated with plants of the type commonly known as succulents.
• General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Ferris (1950b), McKenzie (1967) and by Williams & Granara de Willink (1992).

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