Valid Names Results

Matsucoccus boratynskii Bodenheimer & Neumark, 1955 (Matsucoccidae: Matsucoccus)

Matsucoccus pini; Borchsenius 1950b: 33. misidentification (discovered by Boraty1952a, 286).
Matsucoccus new species Boratynski 1952a: 286. nomen nudum (discovered by BodenhNe1955, 10).
Matsucoccus Russian specimens Boratynski 1952: 507. nomen nudum (discovered by BodenhNe1955, 10).
Matsucoccus boratynskii Bodenheimer & Neumark 1955: 10. Type data: RUSSIA: St. Petersburg Oblast, Park of Forestry Academy and Park Pavlov, on Pinus sylvestris.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name
Matsucoccus insignis Borchsenius 1955c: 222. Type data: RUSSIA: St. Petersburg Oblast, Park of Forestry Academy and Park Pavlov, on Pinus sylvestris.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by MillerPa1987, 56). Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: The first indications to this species were by Boratynski (1952:286, as "... Matsucoccus ... probably a new one ...") and by Boratynski (1952:507, as "... Matsucoccus... Russian specimens.."). Boratynski (1952: 286) indicated that the record of Matsucoccus pini (Green), from Leningrad oblast USSR, by Borchsenius (1950b: 33) represented a species different from M. pini. Bodenheimer & Neumark (1955:10) clearly referred to Borchsenius' (1950b: 33) description and illustrations of M. pini from Russia, St. Petersburg, and by naming the latter Matsucoccus boratynskii validated the latter. Borchsenius' (1955c) description of Matsucoccus insignis was based on material that Borchsenius (1950b) misidentified as M. pini. The book by Bodenheimer & Neumark (1955) was published before May, 1955, whereas Borchsenius (1955c) was published after 2 November, 1955 (K. Boratynski, personal communication to Yair Ben-Dov; Yair Ben-Dov, unpublished data; Miller & Park, 1987). Therefore, by the law of priority, M. boratynskii is the valid name, and M. insignis is its junior synonym.
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Borchsenius (1955c).