Valid Names Results

Rhizopulvinaria turkestanica (Archangelskaya, 1931) (Coccidae: Rhizopulvinaria)

Nomenclatural History

• Pulvinaria artemisiae turkestanica Archangelskaya 1931: 81. Type data: UZBEKISTAN: Samarkand and Ferghana Districts, and TADZHIKISTAN: Kanibadam, on Artemisia, Acanthophyllum spinosum, Scutellaria, Scrophularia, Silene spp. and on Teucrium polium.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name
• Rhizopulvinaria turkestanica (Archangelskaya, 1931); Borchsenius 1952a: 302. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 9 | Genera: 15

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2024: pp.88 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Rhizopulvinaria in Iran]
• Tang1991: pp.283 ( Adult (F) ) [China]
• Borchs1957: pp.259 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic region]

Remarks

• Structure: Adult females oval to circular, convex; young female bright green with a longitudinal yellow band medially; older specimens with body dorsally wrinkled. Ovisac oval or circular, strongly convex and white. Slide-mounted adult female body broadly oval, with parallel sides; membranous at maturity; lacking stigmatic clefts, and anal cleft rather shallow. Derm membranous on young female. Setae spiniform conical and short, sparsely distributed throughout. Tubular ducts small and sparsely distributed. Preopercular pores circular, each with a granulate surface, present in a long group between just anterior to anal plates and abdominal segment I. Smaller discoidal pores sparsely scattered over dorsum. Anal plates together quadrate, each with 3 apical setae. Anal ring bearing 6 setae (Moghaddam & Watson 2024).
• General Remarks: Good description of adult female by Borchsenius (1957). Illustration by Moghaddam & Watson (2024).

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