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Tibetococcus Tang, 1992 (Pseudococcidae)

Tibetococcus Tang 1992: 603. Type species: Kiritshenkella dingriensis Tang by original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: Subfamily: Pseudococcinae (Choi & Lee, 2022) Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin (2015) determined from the original descriptions of the species of Tibetococcus that they differ from each other "only in the number of circuli" and "the absence of any other morphological and ecological differences between discussed Chinnese (sic,) 'species' clearly denotes the variation of circuli number in the same population and as a result, ..... consider T. triticola and T. nyalaiensis as junior synonyms of T. dingriensis. In addition, they stated that these species of Tibetococcus only differ from Mirococcopsis teberdae" in the number of antennal segments (7-8 instead of 6) and in more numerous multiloular pores. Therefore, they determined that these quantitative characters were not enough to support "species independency" and they considered them (together) a subspecies of M teberdae.
General Remarks: Good definition and characters given by Tang (1992).