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Spilococcus williamsi Moghaddam & Watson, 2022 (Pseudococcidae: Spilococcus)

Spilococcus williamsi Moghaddam & Watson 2022: 128. Type data: IRAN:, Markazi province, Khomain, Shahabiyeh (1742 m) (N33˚44′57.0″ / E50˚12′09.5″), 5/26/2012, on Descuriania sophia (Brassicaceae), by. M. Alikhani.. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Tehran: Hayk Mirzayans Insects Museum, Tehran, Iran; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Spilococcus williamsi. comes close to S. pressus Ferris in having: (i) circulus absent; (ii) ventral oral rim tubular ducts absent from head; (iii) cerarii numbering fewer than 13 pairs; (iv) oral rim ducts usually numbering at least 6 on each segment. It differs as follows (character states of S. pressus in brackets): (i) multilocular disc pores present on dorsum of abdominal segments (absent); (ii) dorsal oral rim ducts absent from head (present); (iii) multilocular pores reaching to margins of abdominal segments (multilocular pores not reaching to margins). (Moghaddam & Watson, 2022)
Structure: Slide-mounted adult female body oval, 2.50 mm long, 1.41 mm wide. Eyes situated on margin, each about 36 μm wide. Anal lobes poorly developed, each with ventral surface bearing an apical seta (broken). Antennae each about 304 μm long, with 9 segments; apical segment 40 μm long and 20 μm wide, apex with 2 fleshy setae. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2022)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Moghaddam & Watson, 2022.

MoghadWa2022: diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 11, 128-129, 148