Valid Names Results

Williamsicoccus megalops Vea & Grimaldi, 2015 (Pseudococcidae: Williamsicoccus)

Nomenclatural History

• Williamsicoccus megalops Vea & Grimaldi 2015: 50. Type data: LEBANON: Central Lebanon: Mdeyrij/Hammana: Caza Baabda: Mouhafazet Jabal Loubnon. Lower Cretaceous.. Holotype, male, by original designation Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Notes: In a 4 × 4 × 0.5 mm yellow, transparent, polished amber piece, embedded in Canada balsam and mounted in epoxy with two coverslips, with a few particles of debris Illustr.

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• Systematics: Williamsicoccus is a neococcoid genus (it possesses two pairs of simple eyes) and was classified here within the family Pseudococcidae because of the presence of wax filaments extending from the lateral sides of abdominal segments VII and VIII, indicative of the presence of glandular pouches. Williamsicoccus also differs from Gilderius by the latter having the dorsal and ventral eyes subequal in size and not meeting medially; the wing is particularly narrow in Williamsicoccus but round in Gilderius; the penial sheath is longer and the antennal setae are short in Gilderius. (Vea & Grimaldi, 2015).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and photographs in Vea & Grimaldi, 2015.

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