Valid Names Results

Pelionella Kaydan, 2015 (Pseudococcidae)

Nomenclatural History

• Pelionella Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin 2014: 449. . nomen nudum
• Pelionella Kaydan 2015: 226-227. Type species: Peliococcus manifectus (Borchsenius) by subsequent designation . accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily: Phenacoccinae (Choi & Lee) Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin (2014) used the name "Pelionella" before it was made available in Kaydan, 2015. According to Article 16.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999), this name must be considered unavailable from their work. The name is published in a way that meets the criteria of availability as specified by the ICZN (1999) in Kaydan, 2015. All 11 species of Pelionella can be separated from species in other related genera by the presence of: (i) multilocular disc pores in each dorsal cluster each with two rings of 11 loculi (all multilocular disc pores on other species have a single ring of 12 loculi) (the presence of two types of multilocular pores was noticed also by Danzig (2001) in P. balteatus and P. manifectus); (ii) dorsal setae not similar to cerarian setae, each without a trilocular pore near basal socket, and each not on an elevated area (in Peliococcus some dorsal setae are similar to cerarian setae, each with a trilocular pore near basal socket, and each on an elevated area), and (iii) dorsal oral collar tubular ducts present in clusters and of one or two sizes, each cluster with a smaller duct in the middle and with larger ducts clustered around it and generally along with multilocular disc pores (in Peliococcus and Erimococcus oral collar tubular ducts are also of one size or two sizes but they are never in the middle of the clusters). (Kaydan, 2015)
• Structure: Pelionella has: (i) multilocular disc pores, each with two rings of loculi, in clusters on dorsum, differing from those on venter which have only a single ring of loculi; (ii) dorsal setae spine-like and lacking trilocular pores near their base, thus different from cerarian setae, and (iii) dorsal oral collar tubular ducts of one or two sizes; where there are two sizes, a smaller duct is present in the centre of each cluster and the larger ducts lie among the disc pores towards the outside of the cluster; when there is just one size of duct, it lies in the middle of the cluster. (Kaydan, 2015)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Kaydan, 2014.

Keys

• MoghadWa2022: pp.20-22 ( Adult (F) ) [Pseudococcidae in Iran]
• Kaydan2015: pp.209 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the genera of the Peliococcus species-group ]

Associated References

• DanzigGa2014: description, key, pp. 449-451
• Kaydan2014: description, distribution, illustration, structure, taxonomy, pp. 209
• MoghadMo2015: diagnosis, pp. 40
• MoghadWa2022: key, pp. 21, 82
• WilliaDe2020: taxonomy, pp. 199

12 Species