Valid Names Results
Rhodania porifera Goux, 1935 (Pseudococcidae: Rhodania)Nomenclatural History
- Fonscolombea radicicola Kiritshenko 1931: 312. nomen nudum
- Rhodania porifera Goux 1935: 291. Type data: FRANCE: Rhône, Courzieu, on Festuca ovina. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Phenacoccus festucae Hadzibejli 1957a: 102. nomen nudum
- Rhodania festucae Hadzibejli 1959: 61-71. Type data: GEORGIA: Eastern Georgia, Shiraki, Mescheti, Dzhavacheti, Tabazkuri Lake, on Festuca sulcata. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Tbilisi: Plant Protection Institute, Republic of Georgia; junior synonym (discovered by DanzigGa2015, 347).
Common Names
- pore-bearing mealybug KosztaKo1988F
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 2 | Genera: 5
- Cyperaceae
- Carex | BenDov1994 Mateso1968
- Poaceae
- Avena fatua | BenDov1994 TerGri1966
- Festuca arundinacea | Foldi2000
- Festuca ovina | BenDov1994 Goux1935 TerGri1966
- Festuca pallens | BenDov1994 KotejaZa1969
- Festuca rupicola | BenDov1994 TerGri1973 | (= Festuca sulcata)
- Koeleria vallesiana | MatilePe2002
- Stipa | KaydanKo2010a
Associates:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Formicidae
- Formicidae | KosztaKo1988F
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 13
- Armenia | BenDov1994 TerGri1966 TerGri1973
- France | BenDov1994 Foldi2001 Goux1935
- Georgia (Republic of) | BenDov1994 Borchs1949
- Germany | BenDov1994 Schmut1952 Schmut1980
- Hungary | KozarKiSa2004
- Italy | MatilePe2002
- Kazakhstan | BenDov1994 Mateso1968
- Mongolia | BenDov1994 Danzig1975
- Poland | Koteja1974b KotejaZa1966 KotejaZa1983 Lagows1996
- Russia
- Voronoezh Oblast | Gavril2003a
- Yakutia-Sakha (=Yakut) AR | BenDov1994 Danzig1978a
- Spain | SzitaGoPa2022
- Turkey | KaydanUlEr2007 KaydanUlZe2004
- Ukraine | BenDov1994 Borchs1949
- Krym (=Crimea) Oblast | BenDov1994 Borchs1949
Keys
- DanzigGa2015: pp.343 ( Adult (F) ) [species of Rhodania]
- Gavril2011: pp.41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Rhodania] Key as: Rhodania festucae
- Gavril2011: pp.41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Rhodania]
- KosztaKo1988F: pp.146 ( Adult (F) ) [Central Europe]
Remarks
- Systematics: The original description of Rhodania festucae was published in Georgian and was inaccessible for most coccidologists for many years. Fortunately, in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences there is a hand-written Russian translation of this description, prepared by Z.K. Hadzibejli herself. One of syntypes (collected in Georgia and written in Hadzibejli's handwriting as "1/2 of female"), is in reality a molting larva and has 6-segmented antennae and two sized quinquelocular pores; smaller ones - the same as in Rh. flava and larger ones - as in Rh. porifera. The second female from Georgia and written by Hadjibejli as "paratype" as well as females collected by A.N. Kiritshenko in Crimea and noted by Hadzibejli as syntypes have not any differences from usual females of Rh. porifera. (Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin 2015).
- Structure: Body of live female pinkish, round or broadly oval. Antennae 7-segmented. Peritremes with several 5-locular pores each. Claw usually without a denticle. Anal ring with 20–25 small pores. Hind tibiae enlarged, with numerous translucent pores. Quinquelocular pores numerous on both body sides and forming together with tubular ducts broad bands on abdominal segments. Tubular ducts of two sizes; smaller ones present near spiracles and on cephalothorax only. Body of live male pink, with two short (approximately 2 times longer than aedeagus) wax filaments surpassing the apex of abdomen. Head with three pairs of simple eyes. Antennae 10-segmented; all antennal segments with flagellate setae; two apical segments with special sensorial setae of approximately the same size as hair-like setae. Two pairs of simple eyes of equal size present. Legs thin. Wings well developed. (Gavrilov, 2011)
- Biology: It occurs under leaf sheaths of Festuca sulcata. (Gavrilov, 2011) Life history and associated ants discussed by Kosztarab & Kozár (1988F).
- Economic Importance: Sometimes a pest on pastures (Ter-Grigorian, 1973).
- General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Schmutterer (1952), Ter-Grigorian (1973), Tereznikova (1975) and by Kosztarab & Kozár (1988F). Good description of the adult female given by Borchsenius (1949) and by Tang (1992). Good description and illustration of the junior synonym given by Hadzibejli (1959).
Illustrations
Citations
- BatsanKaKi2017: distribution, host, 265
- BenDov1994: catalog, 472-474
- Borchs1949: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 187-188
- BugajNJuKa2021: distribution, host, list, 311
- CebeciAr2006: distribution, host, 143
- Danzig1975: distribution, host, 51-52
- Danzig1978a: distribution, host, 76
- DanzigGa2015: diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 343, 347-350
- Foldi2000: distribution, host, 80
- Foldi2001: distribution, 303-308
- FoldiGe2018: catalog, distribution, list, 13
- Gavril2003a: distribution, host, 109
- Gavril2004: distribution, host, 526
- Gavril2011: description, distribution, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 40-43
- Gavril2018: reproduction, 227
- GavrilKu2005: distribution, taxonomy, 19-34
- Goux1935: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 291-296
- Hadzib1959: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 472-473
- KalandSi2014: distribution,
- KaydanKo2010a: distribution, host, 38
- KaydanUlEr2007: catalog, distribution, host, 102
- KaydanUlZe2004: distribution, host, 219-224
- KaydanUlZe2004: distribution, host, 223
- Kiritc1931: taxonomy, 312
- KondoWa2022a: distribution, host, list, 25
- KosztaKo1988F: description, distribution, host, illustration, life history, taxonomy, 147-148
- Koteja1974b: distribution, taxonomy, 74
- Koteja2000a: distribution, 172
- KotejaZa1969: distribution, host, 361
- KotejaZa1983: distribution, host, 473
- KozarKiSa2004: distribution, 58
- LagowsGo2020: distribution, 71
- LagowsKo1996: distribution, host, 31, 34
- Mateso1968: distribution, host, 108
- MatilePe2002: distribution, host, 353
- MichalMiGr2019: bacteria, symbionts,
- Schmut1952: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 393-395
- Schmut1980: distribution, host, 50
- SchmutHo2016: distribution, host, 30
- SimonKa2011: distribution, 236
- SzitaGoPa2022: distribution, 3
- Tang1992: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 586-587
- TerGri1966: distribution, host, 87
- TerGri1973: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 113-115
- Terezn1975: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 254-256
- UlgentErYa2022: distribution, host, S126
