Valid Names Results

Xenococcus kinomurai (Williams & Terayama, 2000) (Xenococcidae: Xenococcus)

Eumyrmococcus kinomurai Williams & Terayama 2000: 373. Type data: JAPAN: Ryuku Islands, Yoshina, Ishigaki-jima, associated with the ant, Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) kinomurai, 16.viii.1985, K. Kinomura.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Budapest: Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary; Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; Portici: Dipartimento de Entomologia e Zoologia Agraria di Portici, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy; Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.
Xenococcus kinomurai (Williams & Terayama, 2000); Schneider & LaPolla 2011: 68. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Tanaka2016: pp.119, 121 ( Adult (F) ) [Identification key to Japanese Rhizoecidae species]
SchneiLa2011: pp.68-70 ( Adult (F) ) [Genera and species of the tribe Xenococcini]
KozarKo2007: pp.572-573 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Eumyrmococcus]

Biology: Found in the nest associated with the ant, Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) kinomurai, under a stone, at Ishigaki Island, Japan (Williams & Terayama, 2000). Tanaka & Kikuchi (2010) recorded this mealybug also from Yonaguni Island, in association with the ant, Acropyga kinomurai.
General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female by Williams & Terayama (2000).