Valid Names Results
Rhodania porifera Goux, 1935 (Pseudococcidae: Rhodania)Nomenclatural History
- Fonscolombea radicicola Kiritshenko 1931: 312. nomen nudum
- Rhodania porifera Goux 1935: 291. Type data: FRANCE: Rhône, Courzieu, on Festuca ovina. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.
Common Names
- pore-bearing mealybug KosztaKo1988F
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 2 | Genera: 5
- Cyperaceae
- Carex | BenDov1994 Mateso1968
- Poaceae
- Avena fatua | BenDov1994 TerGri1966
- Festuca arundinacea | Foldi2000
- Festuca ovina | BenDov1994 Goux1935 TerGri1966
- Festuca pallens | BenDov1994 KotejaZa1969
- Festuca rupicola | BenDov1994 TerGri1973 | (= Festuca sulcata)
- Koeleria vallesiana | MatilePe2002
- Stipa | KaydanKo2010a
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 13
- Armenia | BenDov1994 TerGri1966 TerGri1973
- France | BenDov1994 Foldi2001 Goux1935
- Georgia (Republic of) | BenDov1994 Borchs1949
- Germany | BenDov1994 Schmut1952 Schmut1980
- Hungary | KozarKiSa2004
- Italy | MatilePe2002
- Kazakhstan | BenDov1994 Mateso1968
- Mongolia | BenDov1994 Danzig1975
- Poland | Koteja1974b KotejaZa1966 KotejaZa1983 Lagows1996
- Russia
- Voronoezh Oblast | Gavril2003a
- Yakutia-Sakha (=Yakut) AR | BenDov1994 Danzig1978a
- Spain | SzitaGoPa2022
- Turkey | KaydanUlEr2007 KaydanUlZe2004
- Ukraine | BenDov1994 Borchs1949
- Krym (=Crimea) Oblast | BenDov1994 Borchs1949
Keys
- Gavril2011: pp.41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Rhodania]
- KosztaKo1988F: pp.146 ( Adult (F) ) [Central Europe]
Remarks
- Structure: Body of live female pinkish, round or broadly oval. Antennae 7-segmented. Peritremes with several 5-locular pores each. Claw usually without a denticle. Hind tibiae enlarged, with numerous translucent pores. Body of live male pink, with two short (approximately 2 times longer than aedeagus) wax filaments surpassing the apex of abdomen. Head with three pairs of simple eyes. Antennae 10-segmented. Wings well developed. (Gavrilov, 2011)
- Biology: Occurring on the roots of the host plant. Life history and associated ants discussed by Kosztarab & Kozár (1988F).
- Economic Importance: Sometimes a pest on pastures (Ter-Grigorian, 1973).
- General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Schmutterer (1952), Ter-Grigorian (1973), Tereznikova (1975) and by Kosztarab & Kozár (1988F). Good description of the adult female given by Borchsenius (1949) and by Tang (1992).
Illustrations
Citations
- BatsanKaKi2017: distribution, host, 265
- BenDov1994: catalog, 473-474
- Borchs1949: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 187-188
- BugajNJuKa2021: distribution, host, list, 311
- CebeciAr2006: distribution, host, 143
- Danzig1975: distribution, host, 51-52
- Danzig1978a: distribution, host, 76
- Foldi2000: distribution, host, 80
- Foldi2001: distribution, 303-308
- FoldiGe2018: catalog, distribution, list, 13
- Gavril2003a: distribution, host, 109
- Gavril2004: distribution, host, 526
- Gavril2011: description, distribution, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 40-43
- Gavril2018: reproduction, 227
- GavrilKu2005: distribution, taxonomy, 19-34
- Goux1935: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 291-296
- KalandSi2014: distribution,
- KaydanKo2010a: distribution, host, 38
- KaydanUlEr2007: catalog, distribution, host, 102
- KaydanUlZe2004: distribution, host, 219-224
- KaydanUlZe2004: distribution, host, 223
- Kiritc1931: taxonomy, 312
- KondoWa2022a: distribution, host, list, 25
- KosztaKo1988F: description, distribution, host, illustration, life history, taxonomy, 147-148
- Koteja1974b: distribution, taxonomy, 74
- Koteja2000a: distribution, 172
- KotejaZa1969: distribution, host, 361
- KotejaZa1983: distribution, host, 473
- KozarKiSa2004: distribution, 58
- LagowsGo2020: distribution, 71
- LagowsKo1996: distribution, host, 31, 34
- Mateso1968: distribution, host, 108
- MatilePe2002: distribution, host, 353
- MichalMiGr2019: bacteria, symbionts,
- Schmut1952: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 393-395
- Schmut1980: distribution, host, 50
- SchmutHo2016: distribution, host, 30
- SimonKa2011: distribution, 236
- SzitaGoPa2022: distribution, 3
- Tang1992: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 586-587
- TerGri1966: distribution, host, 87
- TerGri1973: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 113-115
- Terezn1975: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 254-256
- UlgentErYa2022: distribution, host, S126