Valid Names Results

Trionymus pietranerae Goux, 1941 (Pseudococcidae: Trionymus)

Nomenclatural History

• Trionymus pietranerae Goux 1941a: 32. Type data: FRANCE: near Bastia, Corsica, on Dactylis glomerata. Holotype, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• YerlikBaKa2021: pp.326-327 ( Adult (F) ) [Trionymus of the Palearctic region]
• DanzigGa2014: pp.99-106 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic Trionymus species]

Remarks

• Structure: Female body elongate oval, about 2.5 mm long, yellow in ethanol. Antennae 7-segmented. Legs comparatively small; hind coxae enlarged, with numerous translucent pores; claw digitules with clavate apex. Anal apparatus complicated, with 2 rows of spinulae; anal ring setae about twice as long a diameter of anal ring. Two pairs of ostioles present. Circuli absent. Multilocular pores forming transverse bands on 4 posterior abdominal sternites and groups along ventral margin of I-III abdominal sternites; several pores also present along ventral margin of head and metathorax. (Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin, 2015)
• Biology: Living in the leaf sheaths of the host plant.
• General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Goux (1941a).

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